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Beltramo's Wines & Spirits
1540 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025

Monday-Friday: 10:00am-7:30pm
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(650) 325-2806
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2009 Michel & Joanna Ecard - Savigny-Les-Beaune Les Serpentieres Vieilles Vignes
Few estates impressed us in 2009 as much as did Michel Ecard's micro-winery in Savigny-lès-Beaune. There's no question that 2009 was an excellent vintage chez Ecard, but as we sampled wine after sublime wine from his very small cellar we found ourselves speechless, unable to put to words what exactly it was that raised this vintage so far above any other in memory.

When Savigny is good, she is stupendously good-this much we have learned over the years working with Michel's father, winemaker Maurice Ecard, who taught his son well. Yet what was in our glasses during this 2009 tasting was far beyond even our initial, very high expectations. What strikes you first about Ecard Burgundy is its richness-these are flavors that make you stand up and pay attention. Not because the wines are muscle-bound and heavy, no-because they are so pure and balanced. We're talking fresh, luscious summer berries that pop in the mouth, with not a right angle or dry tannin in sight. Put all these elements together and you come away with a sensation of silk, from perfume to finish, effortless and savory and undeniably delicious.

But to sum up 2009 in one word? Impossible. The fact is that Michel Ecard in 2009 has done what so many other winemakers dream of doing-create a complete, a 'total' wine. A wine that like a guru on a mountaintop answers every question you could ever possibly have and perhaps even the ones you had yet to ponder, leaving you in a fluid, ecstatic state of everything being alright with the world. Can true Burgundy really do that? As another wise sage said somewhere, "Don't knock it until you try it."

But on a more serious note, it's true that Burgundy this effortlessly pure and elegantly wrought simply does not come around at these kinds of prices often. Don't let it pass you by. North Berkeley Imports
SKU: 06131
Your Price: $49.99
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