Wafting from the glass with notes of sweet berry fruit, burning embers, plums, loamy soil, exotic spices and creamy new oak, Liger-Belair's 2019 Echézeaux Grand Cru is full-bodied, rich and concentrated, with a layered core of fruit, powdery tannins and succulent acids. It's a bold, dramatic wine that's very promising.

Liger-Belair's 2018 Echézeaux Grand Cru is another dramatic wine, bursting with aromas of ripe cherries, cassis, bunting members and dark chocolate that are framed by a generous application of new oak. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, velvety and textural, with an expansive attack, fine depth at the core and an ample chassis of fine structuring tannins. In this ripe vintage, the Echézeaux also displays impressive energy, and it will be well worth seeking out.

The 2017 Echézeaux Grand Cru displays aromas of plums, dark chocolate, caramelized orange, spices, grilled game burg and French roast, framed by a lavish application of new wood. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, broad and satiny, with a textural attack, a fine-boned but open-knit core and a long, nicely focused finish. It seemed ready for bottling and will be a precocious rendition of the Liger-Belair Echézeaux.

The 2016 Echézeaux Grand Cru was affected 40% by the frost this vintage. It has a crisp and focused bouquet with blackberry, raspberry preserve, cold slate and light marine aromas that blossom with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin, one of the most rounded Echézeauxs that I have tasted from the domaine at this early stage. Then the acidity kicks in midway and lends a needed citrus bent to the last third. Not quite up there with the 2015, yet this still has a lot of potential.