middleweight flavors exude a subtle minerality on the sour cherry-suffused and sneaky long finish

There is a wonderful purity to the middle weight flavors that also possess admirably fine-grained tannins on the seductively textured and impressively persistent finish that really fans out as it rests on the palate

velvety and packed with black fruits on the attack

despite yield reductions due to early frost and August sunburn

Gerard Mugneret, Echezeaux Vintage:2016 middleweight flavors exude a subtle(from Les Quartiers de Nuits). An admirably subtle application of wood frames the overtly spicy aromas of plum, cassis, black cherry, sandalwood and Asian style tea wisps. The textured, concentrated and impressively powerful medium bodied flavors possess fine volume thanks to the copious amount of sappy dry extract that imparts a velvety mouthfeel to the delicious finish that tightens up quickly on the moderately austere and highly persistent finish.