Echezeaux Grand Cru Echezeaux Du Dessus
- Red
- Pinot Noir
About Domaine Hoffmann-Jayer
When the Jayer-Gilles estate, founded in the 1950s, was purchased in 2017, its new owner André Hoffmann—a well-known environmentalist whose father Luc co-founded the World Wildlife Fund—set out to improve farming practices and to refine cellar practices in the service of purity and balance.
In the early 1960s, the Jayer-Gilles estate acquired half a hectare in this fabled grand cru from the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti. The vines planted back then yield a wine of eye-popping stoniness and length whose fearsome terroir imprint all but buries the 50% new wood Alexandre employs for its élevage. This spends 20 months in barrel before being bottled without fining or filtration.