Domaine Meo-Camuzet - Echezeaux Les Rouges du Bas 2018
Price: $615.00
Sale Price: $558.95
| Producer | Domaine Meo-Camuzet |
| Country | France |
| Region | Burgundy |
| Subregion | Cote de Nuits |
| Varietal | Pinot Noir |
| Vintage | 2018 |
| Sku | 08888 |
Domaine Meo-Camuzet Description
The Vines: The original planting dates from the end of the 40s, but about one quarter of this was renewed a few years ago. The grapes are small, particularly at the top. They ripen quickly, and a high sugar level combined with excellent acidity can often be observed, and this produces wines of intensity. The only difficulty is that these are grapes which have to be ‘snapped up’ at harvest time: you cannot wait, or they will spoil.
Location: As its name – ‘les Rouges du Bas’ – does not indicate, this vineyard plot of about 1 acre, is situated at the upper limit of the Echezeaux appellation. The altitude explains perhaps the aromatic freshness often found in this wine, even though its east/south-east orientation also influences its early maturity. The nature of the soil changes with the altitude: lighter and lighter as you get higher.
Vinification: The vinification requires little intervention, as the grapes already contain the elements which it takes to succeed.
Maturation: Its development is slow, and right up to the moment when it is bottled, the wine is a little austere. Time is necessary, for this is a wine which tends to remain indifferent to whatever treatments you try to apply to it. It must like to be left alone. It may just react to new casks, Bertranges being the oak that is the most successful.
Cellaring Potential: This wine needs to be kept for a long time if it is to reveal all its richness. The natural acidity contained in the grapes tends to constrict it somewhat when it is young, and time must play its part to make it better balanced.
Wine Spectator: 97 Points
Silky and creamy textured, this black cherry- and blackberry-flavored red is also intense and complex. Spice, earth, graphite and floral elements add depth as this unfolds on the palate. It's balanced, tensile and lingers with fruit, mineral and spice notes.
Wine Advocate: 95 Points
The 2018 Echezeaux Grand Cru Les Rouges du Bas is a gourmand, dramatic wine this year, bursting from the glass with aromas of cassis, sweet berries, wood smoke, rich soil tones, burnin embers and spices. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, broad and expansive, with an ample core of sapid and exotic fruit, velvety tannins and lively acids, concluding with a long and perfumed finish.
Burghound: 94 Points
This too is very ripe yet manages to retain good freshness on the restrained nose of red berry liqueur along with a beautiful array of spice, exotic tea and sandalwood elements. The supple, round and seductively textured mid-palate possess fine volume and density that contrasts markedly with the powerful, muscular and robust finish that flashes hints of acidulated bon bons that adds a refreshing hint. Patience is again suggested as this is quite firm.
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