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Sylvie Esmonin, Cotes de Nuits-Villages, 2023

Red Wine from Burgundy, France
by Sylvie Esmonin
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Côtes de Nuits-Villages is the insider's appellation — fruit from the northern and southern bookends of the Côte de Nuits, often farmed by the same producers who make grand cru. From Sylvie Esmonin, that pedigree shows: she's farmed in Gevrey since the late 1980s, bottling under her own name since 1996, and her flagship Clos Saint-Jacques sits among Burgundy's most iconic 1er Crus. This wine carries her signature touch — restrained extraction, supple texture, and a transparency to site that lets the cool-vintage 2023 character shine through. Expect black cherry, wet stone, a savory undercurrent of mushroom and earth, and the kind of energetic finish that reminds you why the Côte de Nuits is the Côte de Nuits.

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Burghound

91 points

"This is also quite firmly reduced. The caressing but punchy medium weight flavors terminate in a lightly stony, youthfully austere and moderately firm finale that offers good depth and persistence. This should both drink well young and repay mid-term keeping." —Allen Meadows

Antonio Galloni

90 points

"The 2023 Côte de Nuits Villages, which includes 30% whole bunch, offers blackcurrant and light raspberry fruit on the nose, as touches of iris flower come through with time. The palate is medium-bodied and harmonious with pliant tannins. More controlled and complex than the Bourgogne Rouge, this displays just a very slight confit note on the finish but is otherwise a quite delicious Côte de Nuits Village from Esmonin." —Neal Martin

More about Sylvie Esmonin

Domaine in Gevrey-Chambertin with a 15th-century family lineage and five hectares of vineyard. Sylvie studied oenology in Dijon and her wines are marked by high whole-cluster fermentation—lots of stem tannins, lots of terroir. Clos Saint-Jacques is their crown jewel.

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Tasting Notes & Food Pairings

Perfect Pairings

Roast pork tenderloin, mushroom risotto, grilled quail, beef tartare, duck breast with cherries, charcuterie boards, or a soft-rind cheese plate. A weeknight Burgundy with serious-Burgundy reflexes and real Côte de Nuits character.

Tasting Profile

Supple, lifted, and energetic. Black cherry, wet stone, savory mushroom, with a whisper of forest floor on the finish. Medium-bodied, fine-grained tannins, bright juicy acidity, and a clean, persistent close.

Wine Details

  • Grape Variety

    Pinot Noir

  • Vintage

    2023

  • Size

    750ml

  • Farming Practice

    Organic

  • Sweetness

    Dry

  • Body

    Medium Bodied

Aurelien Suenen makes some of the most crystalline and pure Chardonnay with bubbles we've ever found. His vineyards are in the Côte de Blancs, a long north-to-south running escarpment of pure chalk. It faces east, where minerality is nearly a given; exploring each village and vineyard's nuanced expressions provide endless fun to the wine-obsessed (like us!).

Until the Grower movement of the last two decades, single vineyard wines were a rarity in Champagne. Of course, Salon has been always been a single vineyard wine, since 1905, and Pierre Péters started bottling Les Chetillons in 1971. Aurelien found inspiration from these star producers and followed suit, leading his own young generation with his site-specific bottlings.

To coax the most minerality out of the inherently salty, stony soils of the Côte de Blancs, Aurelien has converted his farming to organics, a challenge in this marginal and wet climate. In the cellar he has returned to using old, neutral barrels, along with old acacia and some concrete tun, allowing the wine to breath and coalesce over the long 6-8 month aging, before the second fermentation in the bottle.

Only indigenous yeasts are used, and paired with limited SO2, each barrel continues along its own path; some will complete malolactic fermentation and others will not. All of this just adds to the complexity of every vintage.

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