Nicole Lamarche Echezeaux Grand Cru 2019

Nicole Lamarche Echezeaux Grand Cru 2019

The Lamarche Echézeaux comes from three lieux-dits: Les Cruots ou Vignes Blanches, Clos-Saint-Denis, and Les Champs Traversins. Altogether these parcels make up about 1.3 hectares of vines with an average age of 30 years. Nicole Lamarche works with very low yields here, which, alongside the Domaine’s delicate extraction, results in a superb expression of this terroir. Of this cuvée, Jasper Morris has written, “... [it] has almost as much to offer as the Grands Echézeaux. True, the latter has greater weight and power, but the Echézeaux... is particularly elegant in its immaculate, lacy style.” Another very fairly priced grand cru.

“Elegant, pure and airy aromas are also restrained if gorgeous while blending notes of exotic spice elements with those of floral and mostly red berry scents. The caressing big-bodied flavors possess excellent mid-palate density and almost painful intensity before concluding in a sappy, powerful and focused finale that is shaped by dense but attractively fine-grained tannins. This is at once serious yet elegant and a wine that should amply reward extended keeping; indeed, it will require it.” 95 points, Allen Meadows, Burghound

“A brisk clear pure cherry red colour with the most vibrant bouquet to date. Very intense, still more in red fruit than floral, then a wealth of intense yet hugely charming fruit, a little bit of alpine strawberry, some fresh deep red cherry, just the right acidity and a long graceful finish.” 94-97 points, Jasper Morris MW, Inside Burgundy