Bertrand de Villaine, co-manager of the domaine, avers that the recent re-planting of part of the DRC Echézeaux will help the vines adapt to global warming. For now the young vines do not enter the blend, whose grapes are from vines at least thirty years of age. The result is substantial and not as forward as it has been in the past, with more red fruit than black. There is an immediate rush of fruit, but plenty of complexity behind that. This cuvée seems to improve every year.

The Echezeaux in bottle still displays its youthful dense purple colour, more vibrant than the Corton. The strawberry notes swell across the bouquet, generous, ripe yet fine and fresher in style than the Corton. There is a starburst of energy, more raspberry now, at the front of the palate, then a long and nuanced finale. The fruit fills out the oak, splendid, lengthy, detailed and refined. Very persistent.

An overtly spicy and agreeably cool nose combines notes of soy, star anise, clove and sandalwood with those of plum, violet and a hint of jasmine tea. Here too there is excellent intensity to the attractively textured medium-bodied flavors that flash seriously good length on the ever-so-mildly warm finale. This compact, dusty and moderately austere bitter pit fruit-inflected effort is going to need extended cellaring to arrive at its full apogee. As I noted last year, I don't ever recall seeing a better vintage from barrel and all of that potential appears to have made it into bottle. In sum, the 2019 Ech is as good as any vintage in recent memory from the domaine.

The 2019 Echezeaux Grand Cru is a bigger, richer wine that pushes on the ripeness scale, offering a monster bouquet of red and black fruits, licorice, spice, and roasted herb-like nuances, with a kiss of violets emerging with time in the glass. Needing plenty of air to show at its best, it's full-bodied and concentrated on the palate, with a much broader, more expansive, and hedonistic style. However, its balance and precision lag the 2018, and this is a beast of wine that could be mistaken for a Grenache at this young stage. It’s going to take some time to shed its considerable baby fat and should have two decades or more of longevity. While I suspect the 2018 will be the longer-lived wine, I doubt it will ever match the 2019 for sheer hedonistic pleasure or sexiness.

(95+ points) Deeper pitched than the domaine's Corton, the 2019 Échézeaux Grand Cru exhibits aromas of blackberries, plums, exotic spices, orange rind and rose hips. Full-bodied, rich and ample, its broad, textural attack segues into a deep and concentrated mid-palate and a long, saline finish. This is a sensual, enveloping, elegantly muscular Échézeaux that has fulfilled all the promise it showed in barrel.- WK

The 2019 Echezeaux Grand Cru is a powerhouse. Dark, rich and explosive, the 2019 packs a huge punch. There is plenty of intensity in the blue/purplish-tinged fruit. The domaine's Echezeaux is often a charmer, but that is not the case here, at least not today. At times, the 2019 feels a bit heavy. It will be interesting to see how it ages. - By Antonio Galloni on June 2022