Frederic Esmonin Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Lavaux Saint Jacques 2023 CM10 well south of Napa

well south of Napa

An aromatic nose

From the producer: The ability of Jura’s tiny island community to reimagine and reinvent has allowed our distillery to thrive

from late summer crabs to winter harvested Liberties

offering an intricate aromatic profile of orchard fruit

Frederic Esmonin Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Lavaux Saint Jacques 2023 CM10 well south of NapaLavaux Saint Jacques is one of the Combe de Lavaux's great 1er Crus, sitting just below Estournelles on the same slope and producing a Gevrey of real depth and texture. Frederic Esmonin and his parents Andre and Michele farm a small slate of family parcels that runs all the way up to Chambertin and Clos de Beze, and Lavaux is where the domaine's house style sings: spice, structure, and dark red fruit with a graphite undercurrent. Lavaux typically