The 2019 Echezeaux Grand Cru is quite promising, offering up aromas of minty berry fruit, burning embers, warm spices and toasty new oak. Medium to full-bodied, rich and fleshy, with ripe tannins and a lusty, oak-inflected finish, it's quite marked by its élevage but typically tends to come around by the time it's bottled.

I was skeptical about the 2017 Echezeaux Grand Cru when I tasted it from barrel, but it has rounded out nicely with further élevage and performed well from bottle. Mingling aromas of raspberries and cassis with hints of grilled squab and toasty new oak, it's medium to full-bodied, succulent and fleshy, built around powdery tannins and concluding with good length on the finish.

The 2016 Echezeaux Grand Cru is one weak link in the range this year, and I suspect it is simply a victim of the frost damage. While the wine displays an attractive bouquet of red cherries, spices and herbs, its medium-bodied palate is somewhat tart and meager, with edgy acids and light but chewy structuring tannins.

The 2015 Echezeaux Grand Cru opens in the glass with a bouquet of cassis and plums with a generous framing of spicy new oak. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, ample and fine-grained, with the atypical concentration and depth at the core so characteristic of the 2015 vintage, and a surprisingly bright line of acidity which verges on the tart and depresses my score accordingly. Since Echezeaux normally produces some of the highest pH musts of all the C?te de Nuits' grands crus, I wonder if this was simply over-zealously acidified in this warm vintage? There are some good raw materials here, and I suspect time will be kind to the wine, but it is a bit angular and disjointed out of the gates.

The 2014 Echezeaux Grand Cru has a respectable clean and fresh bouquet with Morello cherry, raspberry coulis and touches of undergrowth. The palate is medium-bodied with finer tannin than either the Chambertin or Romanée Saint Vivant. There is a sense of energy here with just the right amount of spice towards the finish. One of the better offerings this vintage from Louis Latour, enjoy this over the next decade.