DOMAINE DE LA ROMANEE-CONTI Grands Echezeaux Grand Cru 2017 Bottle

Description

The 2017 Grands Échézeaux Grand Cru stands out with its remarkable depth and intensity, earning a noteworthy 96 points from both Vinous and Decanter. This wine showcases dark flavors of black cherry, graphite, leather, and smoke, with an undercurrent of tannin promising longevity. The palate is harmonious and fleshy, exhibiting stony and peppery notes, alongside delightful wild strawberry fruit. Jancis Robinson highlights its massive energy and marked acidity, providing a striking grainy texture with plenty to savor. Meanwhile, The Wine Advocate notes its brooding character with enticing aromas of cassis, blackberries, and exotic spices. With a drinking window from 2027 to 2057, the 2017 Grands Échézeaux is an impressive selection for collectors, destined for rewarding complexity with age.

*****

VINOUS 96 points
The 2017 Grands-Echézeaux Grand Cru is a pretty big step up in this range, both in terms of depth, power and energy. Here the flavors are dark, while there is quite a bit of tannin lurking beneath. Black cherry, graphite, leather, smoke, spice and menthol infuse the 2017 with tons of virile, somber character. Readers will have to be very patient. A whole range of sepia-toned aromas and flavors shrouded in tannin add depth to an imposing Grands-Echézeaux built for cellaring. Harvest was on September 12. - Antonio Galloni

DECANTER 96 points
Tasted by Tim Atkin MW(at Corney & Barrow, London, 29 Jan 2020)
Part of First taste: Domaine de la Romanée-Conti 2017 wines
Showing more colour as well as more weight and intensity than the Échézeaux, as it often does, this is also a much more complete, harmonious wine with more flesh on its bones. Stony, stemmy and peppery, it handles its 100% whole bunches with style. A hint of good reduction and leafy, autumnal, forest floor aromatics segue into a palate that has fine-grained new oak, refreshing minerality and sweet, beguiling, wild strawberry fruit.
Drinking Window 2027 - 2035

JANCIS ROBINSON 18.5 points
Drink: 2030 - 2050
Pale garnet. More closed on the nose than the Échezeaux. Again a certain ferny quality. Quite high toned. Massive energy and zest with quite marked acidity and fine tannin at this stage. Real health juice! Grainy texture and lots to chew on. 1,290 cases

THE WINE ADVOCATE Rating: 94+
Drink Date: 2030 - 2057
Reviewed by: William Kelley, Issue Date: 9th Jan 2020, Source: January 2020 Week 2, The Wine Advocate
More brooding and reserved than the Échézeaux that preceded it in the tasting, the 2017 Grands Échézeaux Grand Cru unwinds in the glass with an enticing bouquet of cassis, blackberries, blood orange, exotic spices and musk. On the palate, it's full-bodied, ample and fleshy, with a more introverted, structured profile than the Échézeaux, its considerable reserves of concentrated fruit framed by an abundance of powdery tannin and succulent acids. Long and penetrating, this will reward sustained bottle age. The Grands Échézeaux was picked on September 12.