- 97 points -
(Vintage 2019)Vigoureux, empreint d’une énergie terrienne, l’Echezeaux est un vin sphérique et profond qui prend des dimensions hors du commun.
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DOMAINE JEAN GRIVOT
Echezeaux Grand cru
2019
- Organic Agriculture / In Conversion
Country
France
Regulated designation
Appellation origine controlée (AOC)
Region
Burgundy
Subregion
Côte de Nuits
Appellation
Echezeaux
Classification
Grand cru
Varietal(s)
Pinot Noir
100 %
Colour
Red
Producer's website
About this winery
Domaine Jean Grivot is one of Burgundy's greatest small family estates, and their story is a classic Burgundy family story. They were one of the first families in Vosne Romanee to bottle and sell their own wine, beginning in the 1930's. The estate has been run by fifth-generation vigneron Etienne Grivot since 1987 with his wife Marielle. The domaine is an impressive 15ha in total, but in classic 'small is beautiful' Burgundian fashion it takes little bits of 22 different appellations to cobble...
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Press reviews
- 95 points -
(Vintage 2019)This 0.85ha holding of vines in the lieu-dit Cruots, next to Comte Liger-Belair, was planted in 1954. This prime site yields fruit of complexity and depth, delivering rich blackberry fruit, exotic spice, smoke and mineral notes. The wine is firm without being hard, with finely-textured tannins, substantial extract and a lingering, subtle finish.
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17,5
(Vintage 2019)Deep cherry red. Ripe, rich, dark-fruited intensity hinting at great depth. Powerful, alcoholic and yet still fresh. A big demonstrative wine with a likely long life ahead. Chewy, firm and embryonic.
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