96+ points John Gilman (View From the Cellar): "It may just have been my palate on this particular day, but I cannot recall ever tasting a greater young vintage of Echézeaux from Domaine Mugneret-Gibourg than this splendid 2010. The beautiful and nascently complex nose offers up a potpourri of red and black cherries, plums, raw cocoa, gamebirds, intense notes of violet, beautiful soil tones and vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, pure and sappy at the core, with stunning transparency, seamless, ripe tannins, laser-like focus and brilliant complexity to come on the very, very long, dancing and tangy finish. This is not as powerful as the 2005 version here (my previous high water mark for this bottling chez Mugneret), but finer, more transparent and with a touch more nascent complexity. Just a beautiful, beautiful example of Echézeaux. 2020-2075. (Nov/Dec 2011)"
95 points La Revue du Vin de France: "Echézeaux is soft, rich and full-bodied, but its minerality doesn't hide its gourmet character and refinement. (2013)"
94.6 points CellarTracker.com community score.
93-95 points William Kelley (Wine Advocate): "The 2010 Echezeaux bursts from the glass with the sexiest, most expressive bouquet imaginable. Sweet red cherries, spices, hard candy, licorice and menthol are some of the many notes that are woven together in this rich, expansive Echezeaux. The sheer depth and clarity of the fruit is striking. This is a great showing. The Echezeaux is made from parcels in Les Rouges du Bas and Quartiers de Nuits that are picked the same day and vinified together. Anticipated maturity: 2025-2045. (12/22/11)"
92-95 points Fine Wine Review: "The Echézeaux is pure in the nose with licorice and dense, dark fruits. In the mouth, the wine is fairly straightforward for Echézeaux with a very caressing texture in the mouth and lively, floral and red cherry flavors. (Issue #134; 2011)"
94 points Stephen Tanzer (Vinous): "Good bright, full red. Lovely perfume of raspberry, spices and crushed stone. Juicy, vibrant and brilliantly delineated, offering outstanding inner-mouth tension and lift to the flavors of red licorice, crushed stone and rose petal. Sappy rather than fleshy. Finishes with great mineral thrust and lingering perfume, the suave tannins reaching the front teeth. Classy juice: this extremely long and aromatic wine leaves the salivary glands quivering. (Mar 2013)"
94 points Allen Meadows (Burghound): "(from the climats of Les Rouges du Bas and Les Quartiers de Nuits aged in 80% new oak). Moderate wood influence surrounds aromas of black cherry, raspberry, earth and a plethora of spice notes. There is a wonderful inner mouth perfume to the pure and muscular medium weight flavors that possess plenty of dry extract that pushes the firm supporting tannins to the background on the intense and distinctly austere finish. This is quite supple on the mid-palate but will still require 12 to 15 years to realize its full potential. Drink: 2022+. (Jan 2013)"
95 points La Revue du Vin de France: "Echézeaux is soft, rich and full-bodied, but its minerality doesn't hide its gourmet character and refinement. (2013)"
94.6 points CellarTracker.com community score.
93-95 points William Kelley (Wine Advocate): "The 2010 Echezeaux bursts from the glass with the sexiest, most expressive bouquet imaginable. Sweet red cherries, spices, hard candy, licorice and menthol are some of the many notes that are woven together in this rich, expansive Echezeaux. The sheer depth and clarity of the fruit is striking. This is a great showing. The Echezeaux is made from parcels in Les Rouges du Bas and Quartiers de Nuits that are picked the same day and vinified together. Anticipated maturity: 2025-2045. (12/22/11)"
92-95 points Fine Wine Review: "The Echézeaux is pure in the nose with licorice and dense, dark fruits. In the mouth, the wine is fairly straightforward for Echézeaux with a very caressing texture in the mouth and lively, floral and red cherry flavors. (Issue #134; 2011)"
94 points Stephen Tanzer (Vinous): "Good bright, full red. Lovely perfume of raspberry, spices and crushed stone. Juicy, vibrant and brilliantly delineated, offering outstanding inner-mouth tension and lift to the flavors of red licorice, crushed stone and rose petal. Sappy rather than fleshy. Finishes with great mineral thrust and lingering perfume, the suave tannins reaching the front teeth. Classy juice: this extremely long and aromatic wine leaves the salivary glands quivering. (Mar 2013)"
94 points Allen Meadows (Burghound): "(from the climats of Les Rouges du Bas and Les Quartiers de Nuits aged in 80% new oak). Moderate wood influence surrounds aromas of black cherry, raspberry, earth and a plethora of spice notes. There is a wonderful inner mouth perfume to the pure and muscular medium weight flavors that possess plenty of dry extract that pushes the firm supporting tannins to the background on the intense and distinctly austere finish. This is quite supple on the mid-palate but will still require 12 to 15 years to realize its full potential. Drink: 2022+. (Jan 2013)"
| Product SKU | 350949 |
| Producer | Mugneret-Gibourg |
| Country | France |
| Region | Burgundy |
| SubRegion | Côte de Nuits |
| Appellation | Flagey-Echezeaux |
| Varietal | Pinot Noir |
| Designation | Grand Cru |
| Vintage | 2010 |
| Size | 750ml |
| Color | Red |
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