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2016 Echézeaux Grand Cru

Wine Details
Place of Origin

France

Echézeaux

Burgundy

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

Pinot Noir

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Louis-Michel Liger-Belair considers 2016 to be “a great Burgundy-style vintage: ripe but not overripe, with medium weight and lovely freshness like old Burgundy vintages.” Of course vine yields were another matter entirely, with frost and some mildew limiting estate-wide production to just 22 hectoliters per hectare, with the range from as little as 4.5 to 32. Liger-Belair harvested in six days, beginning on September 24. He vinified several--but not all--of his crus with a portion of whole clusters, retaining the small bunches with small, well-aerated berries. He chaptalized his wines about half a degree, noting that the ‘16s now have about 13.5% alcohol.

All of the wines I tasted are aging in 100% new oak (only the Clos du Château had been racked), although Liger-Belair is now using some 350-liter barrels for his village wines. Incidentally, the 2015s I tasted from bottle in November were showing well—surprisingly so, noted Liger-Belair, who believes that “for such a big vintage, it's unreasonable to think that the wines will show well during the year after the bottling.”