| Region | |
|---|---|
| Subregion | France > Burgundy > Côte de Nuits > Vosne-Romanée |
| Colour | Red |
| Type | Still |
**Note: from a .50 ha parcel with vines that range from 20 to 60 years of age with the average being about 25 years old**
A reserved but kaleidoscopically complex nose offers up notes of various dark berries with a genuinely astonishing array of spice and floral elements; you don't even need to drink this to enjoy it! There is outstanding volume and concentration to the muscular and powerful big-bodied flavors that brim with palate coating dry extract that also helps to buffer the notably firm tannic spine on the hugely long finish. This is an imposing yet admirably graceful effort that should live for several decades if you've got the patience.
Tasted blind, the 2015 Grands Echézeaux Grand Cru showed extraordinarily well, far surpassing my expectations and proving that interesting things are finally afoot at this domaine. Unfurling in the glass with a classy bouquet of ripe wild berries, rose petals, incense, candied peel and espresso roast, the wine is full-bodied, ample and lavish, with satiny tannins, a fleshy but succulent core of fruit, juicy balancing acids and the ineffable sense of completeness that distinguishes the vintage's best wines. While this address's debut efforts were somewhat uninspiring, this superb Grands Echézeaux is the real thing. Has Domaine d'Eugenie finally arrived? 2025 - 2050
A reserved but kaleidoscopically complex nose offers up notes of various dark berries with a genuinely astonishing array of spice and floral elements; you don't even need to drink this to enjoy it! There is outstanding volume and concentration to the muscular and powerful big-bodied flavors that brim with palate coating dry extract that also helps to buffer the notably firm tannic spine on the hugely long finish. This is an imposing yet admirably graceful effort that should live for decades if you've got the patience.
The 2015 Grands Echézeaux Grand Cru has an understated bouquet, less forward than the Echézeaux at first, although with just a few swirls of the glass it unfurls to reveal scents of raspberry, wild strawberry, wet limestone and a faint touch of orange rind. The delineation and the control are superb. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin, the acidity supremely well judged, quite aristocratic as this vineyard should be. Focused armed with impressive mineralité, this might be a Grands Echézeaux from Domaine d'Eugenie that delivers that intangible element of "soul" in the wine. I look forward to re-tasting this once in bottle.
