So many new wines come to Sunset Corners every week that we rarely get the chance to intimately get to know a wine. On a average we sample around 60 wines a week. Of those we purchase for the shop about 15%. As they come into the shop, we often take a bottle home to get to know the wine a little better, confirm our opinion, and see how it goes with dinner. By the time it makes it home we already know we like it. Yet sometimes over dinner, what we knew was a good wine transcends and becomes a great wine, something very special. Such is the wine we are writing about today!

We've had the occasion to drink this Pinot three times over the last two weeks and each time we found ourselves blown away by the wine!

Pure raspberry fruit on the nose, with under currents of earth adding complexity, full and lush in style, and rich, rich, rich to the taste!

2009 has been praised as a very fine vintage for red Burgundy. A warmer growing season resulted in wines with a greater degree of richness and fruit that provides immediate lip smacking juiciness and satisfaction. We were struck by how this wine synthesizes the best characteristics of the forward hedonistic fruit often found in the best California pinots with the sense of terrior, an earthiness, that makes great red Burgundies so satisfying.

This is an absolutely delicious red wine!

If you love Pinot Noir, if you crave red Burgundy-

don't miss out on this wine!

What could be better? In a world where the prices of the best of New World Pinots and red Burgundy have hit the stratosphere, this wine is a bargain! I'm taking a case for my cellar! You should too!

Antonio Galloni, writes in the Wine Advocate:

"In the Côte de Beaune in particular, many wines are almost excessively rich, yet remain well-balanced. The sweet spot in 2009 is at the entry-level, where a great number of wines outperform their humble pedigrees. Because of the sheer harmony of the more modest wines, 2009 presents a great opportunity for the trade to introduce younger consumers to the wines of Burgundy, an opportunity I hope is not squandered."

2009 Remoissenet Pere et Fils Bourgogne Rouge Reserve

A Pinot Noir Dry Red Table wine from Beaune, Burgundy, France

$29.99 a bottle

10% discount on a case of twelve

Wine Advocate #194, May 2011

Antonio Galloni 89 points

The 2009 Bourgogne Rouge Reserve is a blend of parcels in Gevrey, Serrigny and Volnay, vinified separately and then blended. It shows wonderful juiciness at this level, with plenty of fruit, and a supple,