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ÉCHEZEAUX

2021 'en Orveaux' Grand Cru Domaine Faiveley

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Pinot NoirRedFrance,BurgundyCôte d'OrCôte de NuitsVosne RomanéeGrand Cru 13.5%Échezeaux

This has the elegance of Chambolle, not like a Clos Vougeot at all - lifted and silky and fine, it hasn't huge structure but floral aromatics and graceful finesse. Jérôme remarks that this is very much the style of the 'en Orveaux' parcel. He used 20% whole bunches here. Drinking range: 2030 - 2040L&S (Oct 2022)

75cl bottles (case of 3)

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The 2021 Echézeaux En Orveau Grand Cru comes from a parcel on the south-facing slope and includes some stem addition. It is fragrant on the nose with hints of white pepper and bay leaf embroidered into the lifted red fruit. Quite complex and focused. The palate is medium-bodied with a fresh, almost citrus-like entry, a little bony towards the finish but with more persistence than the Clos Vougeot. Drinking range: 2025 - 2038 Rating: 90-92 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Oct 2023)

A suave, supple style, with fine intensity and energy driving the medley of cherry, strawberry, anise, earth and spice aromas and flavors. Turns more sinewy as this builds in intensity and complexity to the long, expansive aftertaste. Best from 2026 through 2045. Drinking range: 2026 - 2045 Rating: 95 Bruce Sanderson, The Wine Spectator (Aug 2023)

These 40-year-old vines sit next to Musigny. There are three eras of plantation: the 1950s at the top, the 1980s toward the gate and 2013 for the rest. The En Orveaux sector has lots of clay and is very sunny. Pale in color with pretty vinosity and good, red fruit length, this is a head-turning Echézeaux. Jérôme said, "It's best to taste it as though it were a Chambolle." Point taken. Rating: 95 *** Christy Canterbury MW - TimAtkin.com (Feb 2023)

A much spicier mix features notes of both red and dark pinot fruit, rose petal and a whiff of exotic tea. The suave, rich and enveloping medium-bodied flavors still manage to be nicely precise while delivering solid if not exceptional depth and persistence on the bitter pit fruit-inflected finish. Drinking range: 2029 - Rating: 90-92 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Jan 2023)

13.5% and some whole bunches to assist the freshness further. Medium crimson purple. There is a grace and elegance to this wine that sits well with Echezeaux and also with my palate. A really exciting dancing fruit. Loving this perfume. Continues through on the palate with a little bit of orange blossom and primary red fruit. Very stylish. Rating: **** Jasper Morris - Inside Burgundy  (Nov 2022)

One of the paler colours, while the nose has been lifted, perhaps by 25% whole bunch vinification for this wine, or the white marly soil of En Orveaux. Delicate alpine strawberries. Once again, the crispness and precision of the Faiveley wines this year is evident, with the new wood aspect of the structure apparent. Drinking range: 2028 - 2036 Rating: **** 93-95 Jasper Morris - Inside Burgundy  (Nov 2022)

The Faiveley family are the largest vineyard owners in Burgundy, owning around 120ha, spread across the Côtes de Nuits, Beaune and Chalonnaise and encompassing everything from generic Bourgogne up to the grandest of Grand Crus. Their holdings supply the grapes for 5 out of every 6 bottles made by Faiveley, the balance being bought in from carefully selected contract growers.

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