2018 Mongeard-Mugneret Echezeaux Grand Cru

The 2018 Echezeaux Grand Cru is the broadest, most flamboyant wine in the range, bursting with aromas of raspberries, plums, licorice and toasty new oak. Full-bodied, rich and enveloping, it's gourmand and fleshy, with velvety tannins, succulent acids and an ample core of fruit. After a decade in the cellar it will seem more classically proportioned than it does today-as has been the case with Mongeard's fine 2003s-though readers who appreciate riper styles of red Burgundy may also find it hard to resist in its youth.