Domaine Georges Noëllat - Grand Cru Grands-Echézeaux 2021 (750ml)
Price: $1049.99
| Producer | Domaine Georges Noëllat |
| Country | France |
| Region | Burgundy |
| Varietal | Pinot Noir |
| Vintage | 2021 |
| Sku | 70453 |
| Size | 750ml |
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Domaine Georges Noëllat Description
Georges Noëllat was the nephew of Charles Noëllat, who was once the proprietor of one of Vosne’s greatest domaines—a domaine who made important contributions to Domaines Jean-Jacques Confuron and Hudelot Noëllat, and even formed the vast majority of Domaine Leroy. As of 1990, Domaine Georges Noëllat sold its production to Jadot and Drouhin for 20 years. Enter 20-year-old Maxime Cheurlin in 2010, who consequently took over the management of the estate from his grandmother. Cheurlin grew up in Champagne, but it seems Burgundy wine is truly in his blood as he is a nephew of the Jayer family and a cousin of Emmanuel Rouget’s sons. Thus, he complemented his winemaking studies at the Lycée du Viticole in Beaune with stages at Domaine Emmanuel Rouget and Domaine Gros Frère et Soeur in 2009.
Sourced from a tiny parcel of 90yr old vines sized 0.40 ha (0.99 ac)
Burghound: 91-94 Points
Here too there is enough reduction to render the nose impossible to accurately assess. More interesting are the supple, round and again, utterly delicious and vibrant larger-scaled flavors that possess better mid-palate density while displaying focused power on the notably more complex and more persistent finale. This beauty should amply repay a decade plus of keeping.
Vinous: 90-92 Points
The 2021 Echezeaux Grand Cru offers fresh redcurrant and wild strawberry scents on quite a tensile nose. It gradually knits together nicely with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy red fruit, fine acidity, crisp and taut with another quite saline finish. Not great depth or grip to be perfectly honest, yet it is well balanced and more-ish.
