The appellation was created on 31 July 1937, the same day as Grands Échezeaux, the smaller and more compact grand cru of 9.06 hectares that lies beside it. Échezeaux joins ten named terroirs, among them Échezeaux du Dessus, En Orveaux, Les Beaux Monts Bas and Clos Saint-Denis. The vines face east between 230 and just over 300 metres, on Bajocian marl with a pebbly cover that varies from one climat to the next. The name comes from chesaux, a Gallo-Roman word for a group of dwellings; the vineyard itself goes back to the abbey of Cîteaux in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

The Bourgogne wine board describes the wine as ruby shading to magenta and purple, with spice, underbrush and prune, then musk, leather and mushroom with age. The texture is dense and tight-grained, and the wines open fully after four or five years in the cellar.

Several estates with pages here own vines in Échezeaux. Domaine Emmanuel Rouget is based in Flagey-Échezeaux itself, on the vines of Henri Jayer. Domaine Jean Grivot, from Vosne-Romanée, counts Échezeaux among its three grands crus. Domaine Naudin-Ferrand, from the Hautes-Côtes, makes an Échezeaux with whole bunches and very little sulphur.

The wines above gather the Échezeaux available here. See also Vosne-Romanée, Clos de Vougeot, the other grands crus of Burgundy or the full range of Burgundy wines.