(95-97 points) This wine carries the négociant label because although the domaine owns 11 ouvrées themselves, this is supplemented by grapes purchased from a further 3.5 ouvrées where they manage the vines. There are 10 barrels in all this year. Imperial purple. The oak is a touch present at the moment especially on the palate but there is such a fierce concentration of fruit that it works. This really is exceptionally noble in style as well as very dense, with a sublime lingering velvety red fruit. Superb finish. Tasted: November 2018.

Made from a 0.4ha parcel of very old vines and aged like the domaine's Échézeaux in 100% new wood, this is another triumph from an extravagantly talented young winemaker. It's weighty and serious, with plenty of underlying fruit power, scented oak and a smooth, caressing finish. One of the best expressions of the site in 2017.

(93-95 points) The 2017 Grands Echézeaux Grand Cru has a very pure, intense bouquet of dark cherries, blackberry, crushed stone and violet aromas, actually more understated but more sophisticated than the Echézeaux. The palate is medium-bodied with succulent tannin, a fine bead of acidity, sorbet-fresh black fruit and a vivacious, tensile finish. This is a superb Grands-Echézeaux from winemaker Maxime Cheurlin.- Neal Martin

(92-94 points) An extravagant bouquet of blackberries, plums, incense, rose petals and wood smoke introduces the 2017 Grands Echezeaux Grand Cru, a full-bodied, ample and multidimensional wine that's nicely concentrated and complete, its structuring tannins generously cloaked in juicy fruit, its finish long and precise. This year, Cheurlin vinified the two parts of his Grands Echezeaux separately but concluded—predictably, we agreed—that the whole was more interesting than the sum of the parts.