(94+) The 2007 Echézeaux from Domaine Georges Mugneret-Gibourg is really a lovely bottle and it is already starting to drink with great élan and style. The perfumed bouquet wafts from the glass in a complex mélange of red plums, black cherries, violets, cocoa, gamebirds, a beautiful base of dark soil tones, a touch of graphite and a deft framing of vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, focused and beautifully pure on the attack, with a velvety texture, a sappy core, impressive complexity and outstanding length and grip on the moderately tannic and impeccably focused finish. A beautiful wine that is approachable today, but is still a few years away from its true apogee and should prove to be a very long-lived example of the vintage. (Drink between 2016-2045)

A spicy dark berry fruit nose evidences a floral component and carries a whiff of animale and oak toast yet remains pure and actually quite elegant and this refinement can also be found on the impressively concentrated mid-palate of the full and generous flavors that culminate in a mouth coating and exceptionally persistent finish. This should require at least a decade to arrive at its apogee.

Red raspberry and red currant confiture, ginger, cinnamon, and Latakia tobacco-like smokiness comprise the alluring scents and flavors of the Mugnerets’ 2007 Echezeaux. Rich and rounded – with a hint of caramel emerging as it moves into its long, spicy finish – this still manages to be infectiously juicy throughout. I’d safely anticipate 6-8 years of satisfaction. -David Schildknecht