Domaine Jean-Marc Millot Echezeaux du Dessus Grand Cru "Cuvee 1949" 2018 (HK Label)

Domaine Jean-Marc Millot Echezeaux du Dessus Grand Cru "Cuvee 1949" 2018 (HK Label)

The cool and pure medium weight plus flavors are remarkably refined for a young Chambertin yet there is clearly plenty of power lurking beneath the refined veneer

becoming something to contemplate as well as enjoy

8 grams per liter of residual sugar

A discreet lashing of wood easily allows the equally sauvage-suffused nose to display its array of various dark berries

elegant and fresh nose blends notes of red and dark cherry with those of cassis

An expressive and bright nose features notes of diverse red berries

there's fruit too—at least some

weight and mid-palate concentration that coats the palate with dry extract and enrobes the firm tannic spine to the point where it is more of a background element than usual

offering deeply concentrated but lively bitter cherry and boysenberry flavors and an invigorating kick of peppery spices

Otherwise the succulent and opulent massively-scaled flavors possess seemingly endless reserves of dry extract that make the mid-palate and finish of this very firmly structured and almost painfully intense effort appear almost pliant

cedar and smoke in the nose

flavors of quince jelly and apricot mingle with fresh acidity and a delicate