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I was blown away by the 2005 Grands-Echézeaux Grand Cru because though I have tasted it two or three times, never could I envisage that it would reach this level. It has laser-like precision on the nose with more blue fruit than I remember, so much mineralité, as if someone had just ground limestone directly into the wine glass. The palate is exquisitely balanced with filigree tannins framing the pure red fruit, a Pinot Noir with unerring symmetry. It gains weight and depth with aeration, ultimately transforming into a profound wine and one of the best bottles of Grands-Echézeaux that I have tasted from the domaine. Tasted at Noizé restaurant in London.
Drinking Window: 2021 - 2050
Reviewer Name: Neal Martin
Review Date: 1st August 2021
This was last year and still is considerably more reserved and less expressive though the discreet aromas are decidedly more elegant with much more floral influence on the violet and rose petal infused aromas that are nuanced by soy, hoisin and clove notes that can also be found on the muscular, robust and powerful big-bodied flavors that exude dry extract on the detailed and hugely persistent finish. This is both stylish and classy with tautly wound flavors that have that great sense of underlying tension and cuts-like-a-knife precision. Note however that this is, at a comparable stage, so much more primary and backwards than normal that this will need a very long time in the cellar to arrive at its majority, indeed I am not at all sure that the 20 years that I am suggesting will be sufficient.
Brilliant crimson robe. Quite intense and burly – positively autumnal already. Wonderful combination of richness and delicacy. Convincing fine tannins on the finish. Very complete and unmistakably 2005 whereas the Échezeaux is a little less thrilling. Long and vibrant and revitalising. Really a tonic of a wine. Much more vivid than the Échezeaux.
The 2005 Grands-Echezeaux displays an utterly different, less charming personality than its “little” sibling. Fresh black raspberry and black cherry hover between sorbet-like and faintly-caramelized manifestations. The palate is obviously dense, with considerable grip and ultra-fine tannins, incipient silkiness, but not the creaminess of the Echezeaux. Fresh berry, faintly tart fruit skin, and nut oils inform an uncannily kinetic finish that makes one’s mouth quiver.
Reviewer Name: David Schildknecht
Review Date: 30th April 2007
From the aromas, this is immediately more intense and profound, offering blackberry and violet notes. Very silky, rich and concentrated, this refined wine has more sweetness at its center, with great finesse and length. A big step up from the Echézeaux.
Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Grands Echezeaux Grand Cru 2005
Drinking Window: 2020 - 2030
Review Date: 1st June 2007
