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

Monday-Friday: 10:00am-7:30pm
Saturday: 9:30am-7:30pm
Sunday: 10:00am-6:30pm

(650) 325-2806
(888) 710-WINE(9463)
Fax (650) 323-8450

2009 Pierre Gaillard Saint Joseph Cote Belley
"...where 2009 is great (and it truly is) is in the northern Rhône. A number of producers who have been making wines for over thirty years claim it is the greatest vintage in their lifetime. I can say that without a doubt it is the finest overall vintage in the north since 1999, and probably since 1990."- The Wine Advocate

Despite the run of very good vintages in the Rhône, there is something more than exceptional about 2009 that not only has the wine press aflutter but also has made us consider just what exactly makes northern Rhône Syrah so sublime when the heavens and stars align, as they did in 2009. There is plenty of concentrated, almost chewy, fruit in 2009-much more than in 1999, for example. Yet there is also an impeccable freshness to these wines, a cut and precision on the palate that makes them effortless to drink and what's more, enjoyable from the get-go.

Not to say that socking a few in your cellar is a foolhardy idea, not at all-these are bottles that you'll be bringing out over the next decade or more to revel in as they make their elegant evolution from sublime to simply out of this world.

Pierre Gaillard does not make a lot of wine, and that's the way we like it. Unlike some of the more monster houses perched at the feet of the treacherous hills of Côte Rôtie, Pierre's winemaking focus is small-batch, every bit of work by hand, and wines that are unfined and unfiltered and thus as natural and pure as can be. All the following wines we selected-in very small quantities, and some crus represent just one barrels' worth-with Pierre after following the wines throughout the year. North Berkeley Imports
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