2014 Gevrey-Chambertin, Clos Saint-Jacques, 1er Cru, Domaine Sylvie Esmonin, Burgundy

Red • Medium Bodied • Pinot Noir
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Code: 20140600750008000486

Description

The 2014 Gevrey-Chambertin Clos Saint-Jacques 1er Cru has a very attractive, delineated bouquet with pure black cherries, orange rind, crushed stone and sous-bois scents. It's very classy. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins, good body and depth and certainly less austere than many of its peers on the finish. This can be broached now, though I might leave it another couple of years.
91/100, Neal Martin, Vinous (June 2024)
  • Colour
    Red
  • Vintage
    2014
  • Alcohol
    13%
  • Grape
    Pinot Noir
  • Body
    Medium Bodied
  • Producer
    Domaine Sylvie Esmonin

Critics reviews

Neal Martin
91-93/100
The 2014 Gevrey Chambertin 1er Cru Clos Saint Jacques came in with hardly any sorting required because the grapes were so healthy according to Sylvie Esmonin. The vintage includes 50% whole bunch fruit and is matured in 75% new oak. It has a charming blackcurrant, boysenberry and mineral-tinged bouquet that is extremely well defined -- superb mineralit here. The palate is very well balanced with good density, but it is the freshness and tension that drive this on, a tinge of black pepper lending complexity to the energetic finish. The oak is nicely integrated and allows the terroir to shine through. Trs bon.
Neal Martin, Vinous.com (December 2015)

About The Wine

Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir is probably the most frustrating and, at times, infuriating wine grape in the world. However, when it is successful, it can produce some of the most sublime wines known to man. This thin-skinned grape, which grows in small, tight bunches, performs well on well-drained, deepish limestone-based subsoils. It is more susceptible than other varieties to overcropping - concentration and varietal character disappear rapidly if yields are excessive, and yields as little as 25hl/ha are the norm for some climats of Burgundy's Côte d'Or.
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Côte de Nuits

Named after its principle village of Nuits St Georges, the Côte de Nuits forms the northern half of Burgundy’s legendary Côte d’Or, a 20km strip stretching from Dijon to Nuits St Georges, with the best vineyards found halfway up its slopes where growing conditions are at their best. With 22 of the region’s 23 red Grands Crus, most of the world’s great Pinot Noirs are made here, along with a small number of high-quality Chardonnays.
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