Frederic Esmonin Gevrey-Chambertin 2023 campaign-feature survivors of an isolated terroir

survivors of an isolated terroir that time forgot—protected from industrial viticulture precisely because Itata was dismissed as a backwater for decades

The wine is deeply colored

giving it a wide range of food pairing opportunities

brings his legendary discipline to Pignolo—Friuli's finicky

Frederic Esmonin Gevrey-Chambertin 2023 campaign-feature survivors of an isolated terroirThe village level entry from Frederic Esmonin and his parents Andre and Michele, a small family domaine in Gevrey Chambertin that for decades sold fruit to the likes of Drouhin, Jadot, and Leroy before commercializing their own labels in 1988. (Not to be confused with Sylvie Esmonin or Michel Esmonin, different family branches.) The village bottling pulls from parcels around Gevrey and ages in around 20 percent new oak, so the fruit and the place do