Frederic Esmonin Gevrey-Chambertin 2023 web-published Around 2022 Hugues made the

Around 2022 Hugues made the decision to follow biodynamic farming twenty years ago after noticing that his skin was becoming irritated from contact with the chemicals

and only a trickle makes it to the West Coast

Bernard Baudry's flagship Chinon

so the oak stays out of the way

Composed around the harvest of 2016

Frederic Esmonin Gevrey-Chambertin 2023 web-published Around 2022 Hugues made theThe 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