Description
Arden Fine Wines in London offers this DRC Grands Échézeaux 1997.
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The Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (DRC) produces the highly sought-after Grand Cru red Burgundy, Grands Échézeaux.
The DRC Grands Échézeaux vineyard is a 3.53-hectare parcel.
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 presents a harmonious balance of fruit, acidity, and refined tannins.
Wines from Grands Échézeaux typically command a higher price and exhibit greater complexity and structure.
In comparison to DRC’s Échezeaux cuvée, the wine from DRC Grands Échézeaux generally presents more complexity and harmony.
DRC Grands Échézeaux showcases extraordinary ageing potential, requiring you to wait at least four to five years.
DRC Grands Échézeaux 1997
Although 1997 was a warm, early-drinking vintage for Burgundy, DRC’s Grands Échezeaux remains a powerful, deeply complex bottling that has outpaced its sibling Échezeaux bottling in both concentration and density.
It has an exotic bouquet of dark chocolate, red and black raspberry liqueur, scorched earth, Earl Grey tea, and sweet wax.
The nose has fully evolved into its secondary and tertiary phases.
Then the palate is medium-to-full-bodied and oily-textured with a plump, savoury core.
It features notes of damsons, smoked bacon, cedar, and undergrowth (sous-bois).
DRC Grands Échézeaux 1997 offers drinking pleasure now but lacks the generational longevity of cooler, legendary DRC vintages.
Overall, DRC created 8,076 bottles of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Grands Échézeaux in 1997.
As a result, this vintage is very scarce now.
Are you looking to acquire a bottle for a collection or a gift, or do you need a comparison with other DRC vintages?
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