Description
Arden Fine Wines in London offers this DRC Grands Échézeaux 2005.
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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 2005
The 2005 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (DRC) Grands Échezeaux is one of the finest expressions of this vineyard in recent decades.
The nose is intense and complex, featuring black raspberry, maraschino cherry, and violet.
On the palate, it is extremely silky and rich with a dense, sappy fruit core.
The finish is of exceptional length, with fine-grained tannins and flavours of truffle.
Overall, DRC created 11,809 bottles of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Grands Échézeaux in 2005.
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 from the 2000s?
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DRC Grands Échezeaux 2005 tasted by Allen Meadows / Burghound
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.
These can also be found on the muscular, robust and powerful big-bodied flavours 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.
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.
(Drink starting 2025).
Score: 96.
