2017 Echezeaux Les Rouges Du Bas Grand Cru Méo-Camuzet, Burgund

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate - 2017 Echezeaux Les Rouges Du Bas Grand Cru, Méo-Camuzet

Aromas of licorice, cherries and cassis mingle with aromas of smoked meats, bonfire and spicy new oak, introducing the 2017 Echézeaux Grand Cru, a medium to full-bodied wine that's ample, expansive and fine-boned, framed by youthfully chewy tannins that will resolve into velvety suppleness with a few years in bottle. - Dr. William Kelley, Jan. 2019

Allen Meadows' Burghound - 2017 Echezeaux Les Rouges Du Bas Grand Cru, Méo-Camuzet

A pungent nose consists of firm reduction and wood. Otherwise there is excellent richness to the nicely concentrated flavors that possess excellent volume thanks to the abundance of sappy dry extract that softens the otherwise firm and robust tannic spine shaping the impressively persistent finish. Like several of these upper level wines, this is very backward and will need ample patience. - Allen Meadows, Jan. 2019

Vinous - 2017 Echezeaux Les Rouges Du Bas Grand Cru, Méo-Camuzet

The 2017 Echézeaux Grand Cru, a cru that Jean-Nicolas Méo believes has progressed in recent years (although he still served it before the top Vosne-Romanée Premier Crus), has a clean, precise bouquet of violet-tinged red berry fruit, not powerful but full of vim and vigor. The well-balanced palate is quite linear and strict in style, displaying crisp tannin and a little rigidity on the finish that should be addressed by the time it finishes its élevage. - Neil Martin, Jan. 2019