Domaine Dujac Echezeaux Grand Cru, Echezeaux, Burgundy, France, 2006, 750ml

Bright medium red. Liqueur-like ripeness to its complex, soil-driven drive scents of red berries, dried cherry, musky underbrush and minerals, with treble notes of dried flowers and blood orange contributing sexy lift. Large-scaled but remarkably light on its feet, showing almost painful energy to its cranberry and pomegranate fruit flavors. This baby is alive! But it’s also very tight and in need of long aging to show its inherent sweetness. This wonderfully concentrated, deep 2013 transcends its vintage. – Stephen Tanzer