The 2009 Échézeaux Grand Cru unwinds in the glass with a deep-pitched bouquet of wild berries and plums mingled with peonies, exotic spices and hints of wood smoke. Full-bodied, deep and complete, with velvety tannins and an enveloping core of fruit, it's sumptuous but serious, with lively acids and a long, resonant finish. This is a concentrated, youthfully muscular Échézeaux that is still a few years away from showing all its cards.

A ripe, elegant and densely fruited nose exudes notes of violets, sandalwood, anise and dried black berries that precede supple, rich and attractively voluminous flavors that retain a fine sense of underlying detail on the wonderfully intense, persistent and quite firm finish. This is an absolutely stunning wine and every bit as good as the genuinely remarkable 2005. Drink: 2024+
-Allen Meadows, Burghound.com Issue 45. Tasted: Jan 10, 2012

The Echezeaux 2009 has a fragrant, tertiary bouquet with redcurrant, cranberry and notes of freshly tilled earth. Fine definition although it is a little reticent at the moment, even compared to the Duvault-Blochet. The palate is medium-bodied with crunchy cranberry and wild strawberry fruit, maintaining that earthy character with a “stemmy” note in the background. It is a harmonious Echezeaux but perhaps a little more masculine that I anticipated, suggesting that it my surprise by its longevity. It is very composed and gains a little weight with time in the glass. Tasted February 2012.

Good bright, dark red. High-pitched, expressive aromas of raspberry, strawberry, minerals, pepper, wild herbs and flowers. Initially quite tight and peppery, with a dry-edged character, this slightly raw wine expanded somewhat with aeration. Finishes with substantial dusty tannins and an impression of peppery austerity. The most inscrutable of this set of wines today.

This is not a great showing for the 2009 Echézeaux. Today the structural elements seem to dominate the wine's balance. I find little of the seduction and charm the Echezeaux showed when its was in barrel. It is hard to believe this is a representative bottle.