The medium ruby-colored Monthelie Les Duresses (aged in 10% new oak) has a perfume of minerals and blackberries. This wine has a medium-to-full-bodied, powerful and masculine personality with flavors of stones, cassis and black cherries. Drink it between 1998-2003. As always, ratings with a score in parentheses indicate the wine was tasted from cask, not bottle. Importer: Classic Wine Imports, Boston, MA; tel (617) 731-6644.

Interesting. Packed with wet earth, mineral and firm tannins, this is a rather tough wine, but the concentration of ripe fruit makes up for the burly, muscular frame. Good length. Best after 2005.??–PM??Region: France / Burgundy / Monthélie Select to Add