Ascending the ladder of quality, one starts with the light and elegant Echezeaux. This is a great wine, particularly in view of the fact that the vines were only 5 years old at the time of this vintage. Ripe, rich aromas of strawberry and cherry fruit jump from the glass. It is medium bodied with super finesse. This is the earliest maturing wine of the Dujac stable.
This is one of the finest estates in Burgundy. Unfortunately, not everyone in America understands these wines, particularly those restaurants and lazy merchants who are at a loss to explain the positive quality of wines with sandy sediment in the bottle. Seysses will not filter his wines, and after six months to several years, depending on the vintage, a fine sediment will form-a natural occurrence in handmade wines. Such wines are also very vulnerable to heat prostration because they are alive. Perhaps America's fanatical obsession with squeaky-clean, crystal-clear bottles of wines that have had much of their flavor eviscerated by numerous sterile filtrations is why Seysses now only sells 20% of his crop to America. What a tragedy! His 1985s are the finest wines he has made in an already illustrious career, greater even than his glorious 1978s.
One can make no mistake with Dujac's 1985s, provided the importers ship them properly. The trek to the West Coast through the Panama Canal offers great danger for unfiltered wines unless the importers use temperature controlled "reefer" containers.
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