2024, Domaine Frédéric Esmonin, RUCHOTTES-CHAMBERTIN, Grand CruVery highly rated premier cru and one of the signature wines from Esmonin. Strikingly elegant, pure and airy aromas of the essence of just crushed red currant, cherry and newly turned earth. The supple, caressing and refined flavours are less obviously powerful if even more mineral driven, all wrapped in a sneaky long and youthfully austere finale. As it always is, this is a wine of finesse and grace though one that should age well. Outstanding. 91

Yellow-green hue in the glass

with a deep and lively core of fruit framed by sweet

It's certainly beginning to open up for drinking

The length and linear nature of this wine make it outstanding

intense and fragrant

A light and slightly simple bouquet but pleasing in a fresh red cherry mode

50% aged in new oak

Carefully extracted fresh and floral aromatics

more clean

A little spicier than its peers

Things kick off with a raspberry and damson softness that is quickly overtaken by iris

A beautiful La Conseillante courtesy of winemaker Marielle Cazaux and her team