I've Either Lost My Mind or This is One is a Must Buy for Burg Lovers

OK - let's get it out on the table - I'm offering village Monthelie for around $50.  So I've either lost my

mind or I have a very good reason for doing so. People who know me, know since I can only offer 3-4 wines a week they better be damn good. People who also know me that I am all about what is in the bottle and not what is on the bottle.

Now, we all know from Comtes Lafon that you can make great red wine in Monthelie (their wines are worth the $60-$65 they cost).  I think that this wine is better. Much better. A lot better. Florent Garaudet is famous among the top winemakers in Burgundy for his Monthelie whites (which are on their way to our warehouse) but  this red is if anything, even more impressive. I was rendered speechless and anybody who has listened to my podcast with Levi Dalton knows that is an impossibility.

I am pleased to offer the 2010 Florent Garaudet Monthelie Le Mons Helios which I am offering today in 3 packs for $49.99.  This wine is incredibly special. Florent makes it like a Grand Cru if he actually had one. The aromas are super serious and layered with the full Burgundy symphony in effect. The fruit is of the tiny concentrated kind and the palate has a super powerful impression. Regal and majestic actually. More Pommard than Volnay. Reminded me of a Comte Armand Clos des Epeneaux actually. 1993 or 1999. The finish is long, long, and did I say long and perfectly delineated. It is at the quality level of a top producer 1er Cru from Pommard or Volnay. The freshness combined with all the material and the perfect site footprint makes this so unique. Also, you are getting wine from the incredible 2010 vintage a couple of years down it's ageing curve. I cannot tell you how impressive this wine is. By far the best Monthelie I have ever tasted and reminds me more of high end 1er Cru Volnay or Pommard. The wine is just tremendous and a testament to how brilliant 2010 was in Burgundy. For me, this is more exciting than finding a greta famous Grand Cru or 1er Cru, because this is a wine that defies expectations and makes you rethink what can be done in appellations that are not so famous like Monthelie. I'd rather be drinking wine like this than anything. This is Florent's baby and rightly so. Grand Cru Monthelie? I think so.

According to Florent it is a special selection from a unique terroir that is not 1er Cru. It's funny as Florent makes many great 1er Cru's but his best red, for me, was this wine. The vines are older than 60 years. It is not fined or filtered and aged for 18 months in special wood barrels. Only 2,000 barrels of these are made in the world and Florent is the only person in Burgundy who has ever used them.

It is bottled and corked by hand. The presentation is gorgeous in thick glass and a special wood package, but alas, because of our warehouse you will never see anything except the beautiful bottle and the profound elixir that is in it. This is, easily the best red Monthelie I have ever had, and for my money one of the most tasty, delicious, profound, elegant structured wines of the 2010 vintage and easily one of the best wines I had on my jaunt through Burgundy in Feb/March.How can something so big be so fresh? Well, taste the 2010 Monthelie mon Helios from Florent Garaudet and you will see how. One of the best, most unique, interesting and just plain delicious bottles of Burgundy I have ever had. This will age for 15-20 years easy and is such a nice value play in 2010. Do not miss this as you will regret it.

2010 Florent Garaudet Monthelie "Les Mons Helios" - $52.99 

($146.97 3-pack)