2015 Echezeaux, Grand Cru, Domaine François Lamarche, Burgundy
- Red
- Dry
- Medium Bodied
- Pinot Noir
Ready - youthful
- Richard Hemming MW
- 16.5+/20
- Allen Meadows
- 91-94/100
- Neal Martin MW
- 91/100
- Jasper Morris MW
- 95/100
- William Kelley
- 90/100
- William Kelley
- 88/100
Product: 20151040160
Description
A deep pinky-purple colour with a flamboyant, heady yet still graceful nose, this wine combines delicacy and density. Very appealing. The fruit register is mostly raspberry and there is the requisite intricacy on the palate, perfect integration of acidity into the fruit, with low-key tannins behind. Very persistent.
The Lamarches began on 10th September, picking over six days and realising better yields than in 2014. This year Nicole Lamarche has been able to make exactly the wines which she wants to make, avoiding deep extraction while using around 30 percent whole bunches. Do not expect dark colours and overt concentration, but if your taste is for elegant, floral, eventually ethereal wines then this is the place to be.
Drink 2023 - 2033
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Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2015
Maturity Ready - youthful
Grape List Pinot Noir
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Domaine Lamarche
Critics reviews
Richard Hemming MW 16.5+/20
Powerful black-pepper aroma (unusual in Burgundy) with a drying finish. I think the Chaumes is probably better value.Drink 2028 - 2045richard_hemming_mw, JancisRobinson.com (January 2017)
Drink 2028 - 2045
Allen Meadows 91-94/100
From the climats of Les Rouges du Bas, Les Cruots and Clos St. DenisThe wood is more prominent and it presently is strong enough to fight somewhat with the otherwise pretty and overtly spicy aromas of red currant, cherry and lavender. The supple and seductively textured medium-bodied flavours, like several of the wines in the range, immediately tighten up on the balanced and sneaky persistent finish that really fans out as it sits on the palate.Drink from 2027 onwardallen_meadows, burghound_com.com (January 2017)
Drink 2028 - 2045
Neal Martin MW 91/100
The 2015 Echézeaux Grand Cru displays a thick veneer of new oak on the nose that obscures the terroir expression at the moment. There is also a touch of reduction. The palate is medium-bodied with gritty tannin, masculine and obdurate, grippy but lacking a countervailing grace. Perhaps that grace will return with bottle age, but I am not as optimistic as I was when tasting from barrel. Tasted blind at the annual Burgfest tasting.Drink 2022 - 2035Neil Martin, Vinous.com.com (November 2018)
Drink 2028 - 2045
Jasper Morris MW 95/100
Bright medium deep purple. A touch of oak on the nose, and medium depth of fruit shows at the outset but then greater density – along with the oak. Very intense a lot of wood but there is wine enough to match.Jasper Morris MW, insideburgundy_com (September 2018)
Drink 2028 - 2045
William Kelley 90/100
Domaine Lamarche's 2015 Echezeaux Grand Cru opens in the glass with notes of red fruits, soil, cedar and candied peel. On the palate, the wine is medium to full-bodied and satiny, with sappy acids, good depth at the core and creditable length on the finish. The domaine's ethereal style is more effectively realized in this Echezeaux than in any of the premiers crus which preceded it.Drink 2020 - 2035William Kelley, Wine Advocate (April 2018)
Drink 2028 - 2045
William Kelley 88/100
Tasted blind, the 2015 Echezeaux Grand Cru reprised its somewhat lackluster performance earlier this year, offering up a bouquet of cassis, coffee grounds, soil and new oak, followed by a full-bodied palate that's somewhat firm and compact, without much flesh to cloak its structural bones.William Kelley - 31/10/2018
Drink 2028 - 2045
About this wine
Pinot Noir
Pinot Noir is probably the most frustrating, and at times infuriating, wine grape in the world. However when it is successful, it can produce some of the most sublime wines known to man. This thin-skinned grape which grows in small, tight bunches performs well on well-drained, deepish limestone based subsoils as are found on Burgundy's Côte d'Or. Pinot Noir is more susceptible than other varieties to over cropping - concentration and varietal character disappear rapidly if yields are excessive and yields as little as 25hl/ha are the norm for some climats of the Côte d`Or.
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Echezeaux
Situated in the Côte de Nuits subregion of Burgundy, just south of the village of Vosne-Romanée, Échezeaux is an esteemed Grand Cru vineyard with an iconic status in the winemaking world. As a result of the vineyard's unique microclimate and diverse soil compositions, the wines stand firmly among the crème de la crème of the global Pinot Noir offerings.
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Domaine Nicole Lamarche
The division of vineyards with Nicole's cousin Natalie is now complete, and Nicole now has under seven hectares, down from 11 hectares. The Malconsorts and Grands Echezeaux have gone but the monopole of La Grande Rue remains. Nicole Lamarche took over from her father, François, in 2006; from ’19, the domaine now carries her name. Nicole’s style is one of a light touch; the wines aren’t deeply coloured and are sensually soft yet show wonderful intensity. In the vineyard Under her aegis, the vineyards have been converted to organic and biodynamic production, although certification isn’t sought. The vines are now trained higher, and leaf cover is retained. In the cellar, the barrel regime has been changed, both in the lower proportion of new oak used each year, and in the coopers that supply the barrels In the winery When asked for details of the winemaking process, Nicole remains steadfastly enigmatic: there’s no formula and every cuvée receives a customised élevage. However, there’s always a proportion of whole bunch on the top wines, usually around 30%.
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