Jean Grivot, Echezeaux Vintage:2005 Sweet red berry and spice

Sweet red berry and spice notes linger on the delicate finish

with phenomenal length and ripe

and quite saline

it is a rich

A really lovely expression of quite intense fruit - a little too intense to be truly elegant perhaps

Jean Grivot, Echezeaux Vintage:2005 Sweet red berry and spice(from Les Cruots which is also known as Vignes Blanches). A background application of wood is sufficiently subtle to allow the notably spicy and ripe yet quite cool aromas of both red and black pinot fruit, herbal tea and floral elements to shine. There is excellent volume to the intense and tautly muscular middle weight plus flavors that culminate in an explosively long, mouth coating and moderately austere finale where a hint of bitter cherry