Echézeaux, Louis Jadot 2020

Unfurling in the glass with aromas of cherries, mulberries and summer fruit compote mingled with sweet spices and dark chocolate, the 2020 Echézeaux Grand Cru (Domaine Louis Jadot) is full-bodied, ample and seamless, with a suave, enveloping profile, succulent acids and a long, saline finish. It certainly has fleshed out nicely since I last encountered it in barrel.

From Les Rouges du Bas A rich clean purple, with some quite fine red berry fruit to follow on the nose, then perhaps a greater intensity than I was expecting, more acidity, a few fine tannins and very good length. More raspberry and redcurrant than plusher fruit. Tasted: November 2021

A notably spicier if much less earthy nose offers up notes of ripe red berry coulis, violet and a whiff of exotic jasmine tea. The supple, round and beautifully textured medium weight flavors are at once suave and velvety while retaining reasonably good delineation on the sneaky long and youthfully austere finale that is sufficiently structured to suggest an aging curve of 12 to 15 years.

Notes of orange rind, ripe red fruits, vanilla pod and spices introduce the 2020 Echézeaux Grand Cru (Domaine Louis Jadot), a medium to full-bodied, layered wine that was comparatively shy and tightly wound when I tasted it. This is typically a highlight of the range, so I'm inclined to give it the benefit of the doubt, and I suspect that with further élevage it will land toward the upper limit of my range.