2018 Couly-Dutheil Chinon Clos de l'Echo

Couly-Dutheil Chinon Clos de l'Echo 2018

Loire /Chinon /Cabernet Franc

Size: 750ML

$39.99

"One of the single vineyard wines from this producer, this is rich, dense, beginning to mature. Its blackberry fruits are structured with some firm tannins. That gives the wine concentration and adds to the wine's ripeness."

-93 Points, Wine Enthusiast 

"The 2018 Chinon Clos de L’Echo is weighty, warming and mouth-filling. This is one of the appellation’s finest sites, but the vintage has yielded a very ripe example; the alcohol is a touch heady and the flavors are inching away from fresh fruit toward baked. As always, there’s excellent concentration and huge but well-resolved tannins, with fresh acidity despite the warmth of the season. If you like big wines, this Clos de l’Echo will hit the spot, but or me it loses some of the nuance, hence the slightly lower-than-usual rating.”

-92 Points, Vinous