Description
Arden Fine Wines in London offers DRC Grands Échezeaux 1965.
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The Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (DRC) Grands Échézeaux is a highly sought-after Grand Cru red Burgundy from the historic Grands Échézeaux vineyard.
Produced from a 3.53-hectare parcel of the Grands Échezeaux vineyard, this Pinot Noir captivates with its concentration, elegance, and aging potential.
You can expect typical aromas of red and black fruits, such as cherries and raspberries, along with floral notes, earth, and spices.
As the wine ages, it evolves into more complex notes of musk, leather, fur, and mushroom.
The wine offers a harmonious balance of fruit, acidity, and refined tannins.
Wines from Grands Échezeaux typically command a higher price and exhibit greater complexity and structure.
In comparison to DRC’s Échezeaux cuvée, the wine from Grands Échezeaux generally presents more complexity and harmony.
DRC Grands Échezeaux showcases extraordinary aging potential, requiring you to wait at least four to five years.
DRC Grands Échezeaux 1965
The 1965 DRC Grands Échezeaux surprises wine lovers with its elegance and honesty from a generally difficult vintage.
However, the legendary producer did not create a “profound” bottling.
The wet and challenging 1965 growing season achieved only moderate ripeness levels before the rains came during harvest.
In contrast to its more challenging sibling Échezeaux (which DRC did not release that year), DRC released the Grands Échezeaux and impressed some critics with its character and graceful ageing.
Wine experts describe the wine’s character as lean and resolved but lovely.
While not profound, the wine has retained its sweetness and purity.
The wine’s greatest weakness is a lack of length on the palate, which characterises the vintage.
Nonetheless, DRC holds that their Grands-Echézeaux is perhaps the longest-lived of all their wines.
For a wine from a tough year, the 1965 DRC Grands Échezeaux has aged gracefully.
In 1965, DRC produced 13,648 bottles of DRC Grands Échezeaux 1965.
