This is not your normal recommendation - this one was expensive but I wanted you to know how great it was.
For Thanksgiving, I told my wife Donna that because of the occasion, I wanted to share a very special wine. The wine was a 1999 Echezeaux produced by Domaine des Perdrix. The name Echezeaux indicates that the wine was French Burgundy from one of the most respected and highly regarded vineyard sites in the world. It's a Pinot Noir from the area of the world that produces the benchmark for the grape. It had been given to me as a gift years earlier and I know that it was very expensive, probably costing $150 or more when it was purchased.
So what was the result? The Echezeaux was one of the best bottles I have ever tasted. It had incredible flavors of allspice and black cherry. It was sublimely smooth with the perfect blend of fruit and tannin. It had an earthy- mineral component that could have only come from a great Burgundy. It even had some of the scents described as cigar box and saddle. My friends agreed with me that wine just doesn't get any better.
