Ratings & Tasting Notes:

93 points — Decanter
Superb deep velvety colour, with more black than red fruit on the nose. The supple elegance of Échezeaux is immediately evident, and the iron-fist-in-a-velvet-glove style shows the firmness behind a seductively natural richness, balancing subtlety and power.

92 points — Burghound (Allen Meadows, January 2016)
A beautifully spicy if distinctly reticent nose of cassis, plum, violets, lilac, herbal tea and sandalwood. Meadows finds excellent richness to the generously proportioned, very suave medium-bodied flavours, which deliver fine depth and length across a balanced, focused and attractively vibrant finish showing just a hint of youthful edginess. He expects it to age effortlessly while also becoming approachable sooner than the Corton.

92 points — Wine Advocate (Neal Martin, March 2016)
Martin records the picking on 12 October and the following afternoon, cropped at 15.5 hectolitres per hectare — the lowest yield of all the domaine’s 2013s. He describes a fragrant bouquet of Morello cherry and crushed strawberry, precise and nicely focused if lacking the horsepower of a more benevolent growing season. The palate is medium-bodied, fresh and poised, with crisp red cherry and strawberry on entry, and he is impressed enough by the mid-palate weight to suggest one might mistake it for the Grands Échézeaux or even the Richebourg, albeit on a smaller scale. A dash of spice arrives toward the finish as it gently fans out. He had called it a quite ambitious Échezeaux in the making from barrel, and did not alter that view in bottle. Production 715 cases.

Cult Wines International Notes:

Domaine de la Romanée-Conti farms its holdings from Vosne-Romanée under long-established biodynamic practice, at yields among the lowest in Burgundy. Échezeaux is the largest of the grand crus around Vosne, running to nearly thirty-eight hectares divided among dozens of proprietors, and the domaine is its largest single owner with roughly four and a half hectares spread across several lieux-dits. It is traditionally seen as the most approachable wine in the cellar — supple, elegant, earlier to open than its stablemates — and it remains the most accessible way into the domaine’s range without stepping outside the grand crus.

2013 was among the most demanding seasons of the modern era in Burgundy. A cold spring pushed flowering back by weeks, hail struck, and picking ran deep into October — the domaine harvested its Échezeaux on 12 October and the following afternoon at 15.5 hectolitres per hectare, the lowest yield of any of its 2013s, with 715 cases produced. The cool, late profile gave wines of freshness and classical proportion rather than power, and this is a fine example: a deep, velvety colour, a reticent but beautifully spicy nose of Morello cherry, crushed strawberry, cassis, plum, violets, lilac, herbal tea and sandalwood, and a medium-bodied palate of crisp red fruit, fresh and poised, with more mid-palate weight than the cru usually shows. The finish is balanced, focused and vibrant, its firmness tucked behind a seductively natural richness.

Bottle Size:

750 mL

Storage History:

Always stored on its side in a climate-controlled cellar.

Condition:

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Outstanding condition.

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