2017 Frederic Esmonin Ruchottes-Chambertin

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 92.3 points

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  12/8/2023 - duchamp Likes this wine: 94 Points

  (from memory) Medium ruby, slightly reduced nose, rapped in sweet bing cherry, spice, earth, and touches of oak, ripe red fruit on the palate with umami/mushroom, iron, minerality, and earth underneath, followed by medium plus acidity and medium tannins, complex and structured on the finish that is currently fruit forward but shows the stuffing and complexity to evolve into something special

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  12/9/2020 - Sleepy Dave wrote:

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  This is really showing the friendliness of 2017 vintage. Already highly expressive from the get go. Such airiness that can only be coming from a vineyard with higher altitude. Filled with cloves, violet, pepper, earth and intermixed with fresh red fruits. Very fresh at the entry and continue to gain strength and depth towards the mid palate and give way to a very good grip and persistent finish. This has the restraint power, refined tannin. The saline quality (more on mineral) is different compared to the savouriness from the Mazy.

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  7/23/2020 - Brolawa Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Outside and socially distanced, blind wine tasting of young burgundy 375s for a future Chevalier dinner. Wines and comparative notes as follows:
  
  2017 Mongeard-Mugneret Vosne-Romanee: Not much of a nose and very strong tannins - so strong that it finished at a screechy halt on the palate. It's a burley wine - almost like a young Bordeaux. Didn't taste like Burgundy. 87
  
  2017 Mongeard-Mugneret Vosne-Romanee 1er Cur Les Orveaux: Strong notes of mineral and red fruit throughout vertical. Notably superior to the village wine. 91
  
  2016 Domaine Hervé Sigaut Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Les Sentiers Vieilles Vignes: Very respectable wine. A nose of red fruit, floral and mineral with a touch of smoke. This held up through the entire vertical. Tasty wine, but outclassed by the Esmonins. 91
  
  2016 2016 Domaine Hervé Sigaut Morey St. Dennis 1er Cru Les Millandes: This wine has strong notes of cherry and mineral throughout the entire vertical. Reminded me of a young NSG. 91
  
  2017/2018 Frederic Esmonin Ruchottes-Chambertin: These wines were very similar and I picked them both as from somewhere in Chambertin. Surprisingly complex nose of fruit, smoke, mineral, wood for such young wines. I really enjoyed them both, with a nod to the 2017 which had more complexity and more flavor. The 2017 was the winner on the night, and I personally liked the 2017 so much that I bought a case. 2017 = 93; 2018 = 92

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  3/28/2020 - The Guzz wrote: 90 Points

  Riper than expected fruit profile. Dark, candied pungent nose, wood. Not as full on the palate. Good length but definitely linear. Minerality came out after a couple hours.

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