Tasted blind, the 2015 Echézeaux Grand Cru also put in a superb performance, bursting from the glass with an expressive bouquet of dark wild berries, cola, orange rind, dried flowers and espresso. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, lavish and dramatic, with a broad attack, a deep and juicy core of fruit, satiny structuring tannins and a long, fragrant and already sapid finish. It's one of the finest renditions of Echézeaux to be found this year.

Medium red; less dark and saturated than the Clos Vougeot. Deeply pitched but highly nuanced aromas and flavors of black cherry, red licorice, dried rose petal, tobacco, spices and musky minerality. Plush, sweet, silky wine with uncommon depth; hugely rich but not heavy, this voluptuous wine expands to fill the mouth. The explosively long finish features utterly noble tannins. Did I mention that this sophisticated, fresh wine boasts a texture of liquid velvet?

The 2015 Echézeaux Grand Cru offers fleshy ripe red cherry and crushed strawberry fruit on a nose that would benefit from more delineation. This is just a tad smudged compared to others. The palate is medium-bodied with chewy tannin, good substance and perhaps more extraction than its peers, and the finish is saline. Give this five or six years and it should evolve into a very fine Echézeaux. Tasted blind at the annual Burgfest tasting.

Mid crimson. Really very opulent, but with structure too. Combines all attributes evident in their other wines. Very neat and beautifully balanced. Youthful but not aggressive. Firm and fine with quite grainy tannins at this point. Convincing. (JR)