Albert Bichot (Clos Frantin), Grands Echezeaux

Albert Bichot (Clos Frantin), Grands Echezeaux(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

finishing a tad chewy

it is a serious wine with a Bordeaux-like personality

The mid-palate is quite supple and round with good concentration to the solidly complex middle weight flavors that possess good balance and length if not much in the way of refinement on the notably firm finish

this is definitely going to require at least moderate patience and like the Chambertin

but it is just as good

An evocative mix of red

complex and solidly long finish

floral and spice

corpulent textures

but as always

supple and open knit

Highlights how sure and confident was the winemaking at Haut-Bailly ten years on from Bob Wilmers arrival