Albert Bichot (Clos Frantin), Grands Echezeaux Vintage:2017 cool and restrained nose offers

cool and restrained nose offers an appealingly spicy array of red currant

exotic spices and plums

harmonious and strikingly persistent finale

The brooding and equally serious broad-shouldered flavors are not quite as concentrated as those of the Chambertin but are even finer and display plenty of minerality on the wonderfully persistent finish

earth and a hint of the sauvage

Albert Bichot (Clos Frantin), Grands Echezeaux Vintage:2017 cool and restrained nose offers(from a . 4 ha parcel). Very pure and seductive spiced cassis and black cherry aromas dissolve into delicious, classy and focused medium full flavors that offer good richness and ample finishing punch and power. This is sleekly muscled with a structured but balanced finish that is austere but impressively persistent. A true long distance runner that will require every bit of a decade to reveal its full potential and perhaps longer. The clear class of