Jean Grivot, Echezeaux Vintage:2005 Put this bottle aside in

Put this bottle aside in your cellar for the decades to come

Doug Shafer noted that this fruit was picked at up to 26 degrees Brix

A really lovely expression of quite intense fruit - a little too intense to be truly elegant perhaps

it is a rich

and quite saline

Jean Grivot, Echezeaux Vintage:2005 Put this bottle aside in(from Les Cruots which is also known as Vignes Blanches). A background application of wood is sufficiently subtle to allow the notably spicy and ripe yet quite cool aromas of both red and black pinot fruit, herbal tea and floral elements to shine. There is excellent volume to the intense and tautly muscular middle weight plus flavors that culminate in an explosively long, mouth coating and moderately austere finale where a hint of bitter cherry