Frederic Esmonin Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Lavaux Saint Jacques 2023 CM10 Big Basin farms this old-vine

Big Basin farms this old-vine parcel in the Santa Cruz Mountains

An aromatic nose

After a long

Bright and zippy aromatics of stone fruit

offering an intricate aromatic profile of orchard fruit

Frederic Esmonin Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Lavaux Saint Jacques 2023 CM10 Big Basin farms this old-vineLavaux 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