Albert Bichot (Clos Frantin), Grands Echezeaux Vintage:2017

Albert Bichot (Clos Frantin), Grands Echezeaux Vintage:2017(from a . 4 ha parcel). Very pure and seductive spiced cassis and black cherry aromas dissolve into delicious, classy and focused medium full flavors that offer good richness and ample finishing punch and power. This is sleekly muscled with a structured but balanced finish that is austere but impressively persistent. A true long distance runner that will require every bit of a decade to reveal its full potential and perhaps longer. The clear class of

tobacco leaf and pencil shavings

2% Petit Verdot

exotic spices and plums

featuring expressive

with floral

An interesting wine of amalgams

harmonious and strikingly persistent finale

cool and restrained nose offers an appealingly spicy array of red currant

the phenolics are ripe and this should round out in time

The brooding and equally serious broad-shouldered flavors are not quite as concentrated as those of the Chambertin but are even finer and display plenty of minerality on the wonderfully persistent finish

45 ha parcel is very young vines with the remainder from vines of around 50 years of age)

earth and a hint of the sauvage