Wine Advocate December, 2009 From two different estate properties in the Rouges du Bas and du Dessus sections of that cru (one a Gagey family holding), the Jadot 2006 Echezeaux mingles cassis, black cherry, and mint chocolate on a silken-textured, rich, enveloping, almost fat palate. Yet this preserves a sense of lift and elegance as well as invigoration, in part due to the bright sense of fruit freshness and pungency of fruit skin and spice. It displays truly grand cru length and suggests natural-born refinement of a sort Lardiere insists cannot be achieved in the lower sites that were "scandalously" re-classified as part of Echezeaux in 1973. I would anticipate 10-12 years of fascination here. ()

Good bright red. Reticent yet pungent aromas of redcurrant, loam, flinty minerality and blood orange. Vibrant and penetrating, with uncanny sappy energy to the red berry and mineral flavors. Dense but light on its feet; this has tightened up in a good way since I tried it from barrel last year. Finishes with terrific thrust.

The majority of the wood this displayed from cask has been integrated, which now frames a reserved but highly spiced nose that also features ripe and complex red and blue pinot fruit that complements the rich, full and impressively powerful flavors that possess excellent volume and a lovely mouth feel on the long, serious, detailed and relatively austere finish that is notably dry. A big and very firm Ech that will need every bit of a decade to soften the supporting tannins. Drink: 2016+
-Allen Meadows, Burghound.com, Issue 34. Tasted: Apr 01, 2009

At its highest point the grand cru reaches 300 metres, at its lowest 250. Upslope, the incline is steep (up to 13 degrees) and the surface soil thin with the underlying rock often visible. Pale and bright crimson. Hint of buckwheat with lots of acidity. Rather unbalanced with masses of dry tannins. Shame because there is lots of great fruit here but I can’t quite see how it will soften and mature. Lots of acidity and fine and correct but not so much current pleasure. (JR)