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2002 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Echezeaux - France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Echezeaux Grand Cru (4/8/2011)
This was a star of an Echezeaux. Cloudy in the glass, it had the wildest, most clearly whole cluster nose of the three DRCs, all toasty Chinese herbs, angelica root, wild wood spices and meat alongside sweet red cherries and some beautiful floral notes. Lovely - reminded me ever so much of one of Domaine Leroy’s downgraded 2004 wines. The palate was complex and intriguing and really elegant for its terroir. There was a fresh, brightness to its red fruit expression, more wood spice, all warm and earthy, and infused with tea and that herbal essence that I picked up on the nose. There was great presence on the mid-palate and then a long, haunting finish with floating floral notes filling the mouth. I can so see how this wine would have been awkward and ungainly in its earlier years, fine tannins were still making their presence felt with a touch of firmness even now, but this is certainly maturing quickly with the promise of a stunning adulthood ahead. The most forward of the three DRCs, I can see this slowly entering into its drinking window in the next couple of years. (93 pts.)
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