Jean Grivot, Echezeaux Vintage:2007 with a kirsch

with a kirsch

I have no doubt the 2016 will blossom in bottle

Lovely stuff fashioned in an understated style

The old vines are very much in evidence as there is a true abundance of palate soaking dry extract that imparts a velvety mouth feel to the mid-palate and buffers the very firm tannins on the youthfully austere

It is less remarkable overall

Jean Grivot, Echezeaux Vintage:2007 with a kirsch(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