Professional reviews
Robert Parker (95)
Dujac's 2022 Echezeaux Grand Cru is broad and supple, bursting with aromas of smoky plums, wild berries, peonies, orange zest and spices. Full-bodied, unctuous and enveloping, its textural attack segues into a fleshy but succulent core of fruit framed by sweet, powdery tannins.
Jancis Robinson (17.50)
100% whole clusters, 70% new oak. Cask sample.
Deep-mid ruby. Dark red and black cherries, raspberries and some spicy new oak. This is tremendously concentrated, with a taught, muscular body and frame. There is perfume and elegance, too; it’s no bruiser. Young, nervous, spicy. A cracking young Échezeaux. (MH)
Vinous (94)
The 2022 Echézeaux Grand Cru shows the stem addition on the nose a little more than the Vosne Premier Crus at the moment (written before Seysses mentions that it is 100% whole clusters.) Melted tar and black olive infuse the black fruit - quite tensile with a light marine influence. The palate is medium-bodied with dense, quite firm tannins and a core of licorice-tinged fruit with a sweet finish. Amongst the Grand Crus, this is the one that doesn't quite deliver the same level of breeding, just lacking that éclat or spark on the finish.
Burghound (94)
A pungent nose is composed of reduction and wood toast. More interesting are the velvet-textured and palate coating medium weight flavors that quite seductively textured before terminating in a moderately robust, focused and powerful finish. This could also use more depth but the Dujac Ech has a fine track record of aging successfully so more should reasonably develop in time.
Jasper Morris (96)
A fresh and vibrant purple. 100% whole cluster. A sort of brioche reduction. Then it really develops on the palate, with a lifted vibrant red fruit, mainly raspberry, still some tannins behind, though the fruit covers them very nicely. Medium persistence. I can see Jeremy’s 2002 comparison for this wine.
