Jean Grivot, Echezeaux Vintage:2007 with a kirsch

with a kirsch

600 bottles were filled in May 2017

Many of its peers show the inky and concentrated fruit of this hot and dry vintage

the overall tannin balance will need watching here

(50+ year old vines)

Jean Grivot, Echezeaux Vintage:2007 with a kirsch(from Les Cruots which is also known as Vignes Blanches). A background application of wood is sufficiently subtle to allow the notably spicy and ripe yet quite cool aromas of both red and black pinot fruit, herbal tea and floral elements to shine. There is excellent volume to the intense and tautly muscular middle weight plus flavors that culminate in an explosively long, mouth coating and moderately austere finale where a hint of bitter cherry