MEO-CAMUZET Echezeaux Grand Cru

WA: 92-94

The 2014 Echézeaux Grand Cru has a delightful, floral, cassis and red cherry-scented bouquet with fine mineralité, much more convincing than the Clos Vougeot. The palate is medium-bodied with quite juicy tannin. There is good substance and body here with a touch of spice filtering through on the long peacock's tail of a finish. Not a match for the Cros Parantoux perhaps, but still a serious proposition.

VN: 92-94

Bright red-ruby. Pure, expressive aromas and flavors of black cherry and menthol lifted by a topnote of spearmint. Densely packed, seamless and refined on the palate, with firm underlying acidity giving the wine a very primary quality. One senses that this very promising Echézeaux will require several years in the bottle to display its inherent generosity. Méo's vines in Les Rouges du Bas were planted in 1950. He did a lot of replanting when he took over the domain in 1989, which he believes has added "an extra layer of ripeness" to the wine.