Echezeaux 2020 Emmanuel Rouget

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Robert Parker (91)

The 2020 Echézeaux Grand Cru was picked on September 3 and attained fully 16% alcohol. Exhibiting aromas of jammy berry fruit, licorice, melted chocolate and sweet spices, it's full-bodied, rich and broad-shouldered, with a layered, concentrated core abundantly endowed with tannin and alcohol. Powerful and heady, it's a bit of a monster, though it's more integrated at this stage than the Beaux Monts. As with its 2019 predecessor, it's hard to know where it will go.

Vinous (93)

The 2020 Echézeaux Grand Cru has a "big", quite ostentatious bouquet with dark cherries, crème de cassis, tinned prune and blueberries. It augurs for a top-heavy palate, though actually I find this better balanced than expected, certainly more so than the Les Beaumonts with veins of blood orange enlivening the quite persistent finish. This should age well in bottle although I would like to see more restraint on the nose.