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A taste tour of Échezeaux

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This look at 10 wines from some of the top producers of the grand cru Échezeaux was the second excellent tasting of red burgundy that I have attended at the London wine merchant Roberson. (See Sylvain Cathiard tasting notes for the first.) Fellow tasters included Neal Martin (whom I had seen earlier that day at another tasting) and Michael Broadbent, still bucked by his legal triumph last week over the author and publishers of The Billionaire's Vinegar, which he had claimed libelled him.

Two bottles of each wine were opened and two out of this total of 20 expensive...