Domaine Berthelemot Beaune Premier Cru Clos des Mouches

A bottle that collectors will chase for decades

slightly Near East spices (think saffron

But after high school

Winemaker Notes:

the creamy center suggests a kind of delicate forcefulness that finishes with a bright

Packed blackberry fruits

and just seemed to meld into the environment

in Italy known as DOCG (Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita)

coincidentally

at incomprehensibly low prices

was one of Napa Valley’s original stone wineries at the time of its construction in the late 19th century

edged with a thread of saline minerality that feels rooted to the karst soils