(96-98 points) A heady purple colour, still very youthful. The Grands Echezeaux has a greater weight of fruit while the Echezeaux deals more in nuance. Voluminous, in a very good way, nothing heavy, then a moment where the minerals emerge, then a little more oak to finish. Still on its journey but I think the potential is superb.

(95-97 points) The 2022 Grands Echézeaux Grand Cru is aged in 80% new oak and was completely de-stemmed. It has a very floral bouquet, violets permeating the intense black fruit, becoming even more floral with aeration. And yet, it is a little distant, implying that it will require considerable bottle age. The medium-bodied palate offers sappy black fruit with fine tannins, satin-like in terms of texture. But the finish has a sense of linearity and strictness, so it's not an opulent Grands Echézeaux. Afford this several years in bottle. Superb. - By Neal Martin on November 2023

(92-95 points) This possesses the most floral nose in the range with its wonderfully spicy, even exotic, red berry fruit aromas. The dense, powerful and tautly muscular large-scaled flavors also brim with dry extract that helps to buffer the very firm yet relatively fine-grained tannins shaping the dusty, moderately austere and beautifully complex finale. This is quite classy and while the Ech and the VRBM are lovely, there's an extra dimension here.