Community Tasting Note

Julian Marshall wrote:

Tuesday, January 18, 2022 - The nose was great - floral, but especially dark fruits, with quite rich blackcurrant and soya beans. The first sip on opening showed it was a bit tight, so I decanted it for four hours. The attack was full of blackcurrants, followed by a broad, quite rich wave of dark cherry and then some dark raspberry on the finish. The fruit was crunchy, as usual with these wines, but for once it was black fruit rather than red, and the colour was a lot deeper than usual. So far so good.
The fruit sensations do, however, differ from other wines - they taste as if the sugar has been extracted. Therefore, the fruit tastes very sappy, but also quite astringent, leaving a lip-smacking feeling which is a bit odd. It was rich, but not sweetly rich, on the contrary, a strangely dry richness.

It was quite hard work to drink and at the moment, I admired it rather than liked it. There is a definite silky elegance and the way the quite deep richness is offset by crisp acidity bodes well.

Obviously the Echelier 15 was still very young and needs another five years at least, but I'm not sure where it is going. I really have no idea if this wine is an outstanding wine in the making or the Emperor's New Clothes.

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