2019 Joseph Drouhin Grands-Echezeaux Grand Cru Cote d'Or, Burgundy

The 2019 Grands-Echézeaux Grand Cru offers brambly red fruit on the nose—cranberry and wild strawberry—and is a little disjointed at first, although it coheres in the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with fine but firm tannins. Quite classic in style for a 2019, linear and reserved, I can imagine a long decant revealing a fleshier wine. I like the cut of its jib, but it will require a few years in bottle, and I wager that it won't appeal to those seeking tons of luscious fruit. Tasted blind at the Burgfest tasting.

93 points Neal Martin vinous.com

Elegance and perfection, two of Joseph Drouhin's tenets. The colour is bright and intense. A full palette of aromas reminiscent of stone fruit (cherry, peach, apricot), cocoa, exotic wood (cedar). On the palate, the texture is like silk and velvet. In the aftertaste, the same touch of dark chocolate is in evidence. Extremely long aftertaste