1998 | Frederic Esmonin | Chambertin

Red Wine: 1998 | Frederic Esmonin | Chambertin

A fully mature and beautifully complex nose features notes of truffle, sauvage, earth and smoked meat.

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Producer: Frederic Esmonin

Ratings: AM | 92

Vintage: 1998

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13.5%

Varietal: Pinot Noir

Country/Region: France, Burgundy

A fully mature and beautifully complex nose features notes of truffle, sauvage, earth and smoked meat.

Reviews:

• Allen Meadows: A fully mature and beautifully complex nose features notes of truffle, sauvage, earth and smoked meat. There is a lovely texture to the round, delicious and caressing medium-bodied flavors that possess unusually good phenolic ripeness in the context of the vintage, all wrapped in a lingering, balanced and mouth coating finish. This is a very fine example of the appellation and one that is drinking perfectly now even in magnum format. In a word, impressive.

Producer Information

Frdric Esmonin is a Burgundian wine producer, situated in the Ctes de Nuits district. The 4 hectare (9 acre) domaine was established by Andr Esmonin in the 1970s. Frdric Esmonin, cousin to fellow domaine-owner Sylvie Esmonin, joined his father in the running of the family business in 1988 and, in the same year, the domaine began bottling and selling its wines entirely independently. Concurrently to this, Frdric Esmonin also founded a ngociant brand called Les Estournelles. The domaine has two grand cru vineyard plots in Gevrey-Chambertin, planted between 1949 and 1959 Mazis- and Ruchottes-Chambertin as well as three premier cru climats Champonnet, Lavaut Saint-Jacques and Estournelles-Saint-Jacques. The domaine ages its wines in wooden casks for between 14 to 17 months. Typically, the grand cru and Lavaut Saint-Jacques Premier Cru wines see 80 percent new oak, whereas the village-level wines are aged in 20 percent new oak. Racking only takes place when the wine is ready to be bottled (without filtration). The domaine's Mazis-Chambertin Grand Cru vineyard site sits atop hard soils, while the Ruchottes-Chambertin vineyard plot is located on lighter soils. Frdric Esmonin's Premier Cru Lavaux Saint-Jacques vineyard site lies adjacent to Gevrey-Chambertin's most revered Premier Cru climat Clos Saint-Jacques. These vines are planted in clay soils with southeast exposures. Frdric Esmonin also makes three village-level wines: a Clos Prieur, one vielles vignes and a village.