Echézeaux, Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair 2017

An attractively spicy nose is also markedly floral in character with pretty and ripe aromas that consist primarily of various dark berries, plum and violet. The finer and slightly denser flavors possess solid dry extract as well as a velvety, sappy and very seductive mouthfeel where the extract does a good job of buffering the long, complex and youthfully austere finish. This too is really quite lovely but note well that it's firmly structured and will definitely need time. (Drink starting 2032)

The 2017 Liger-Belair Echézeaux offers up plenty of aromatic fireworks, but it cannot quite keep pace with the stellar Clos Vougeot on the palate. The celestial nose delivers scents of black raspberries, sweet dark berries, black plums, dark soil tones, pigeon, Vosne spices and nutty new oak. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and nicely reserved out of the blocks, with a good core, fine-grained tannins and a long, complex and very nicely balanced finish. This is very seductive wine, but it does not possess quite the same backend conviction of the Clos Vougeot (Drink between 2026-2075)