There are eight barrels of the 2016 Monthelie les Duresses this year. Tasted directly from stainless steel vat, fragrant crushed strawberry and red cherry fruit waft from the nose while the palate is fleshy and quite plump with a fine bead of acidity on the tart finish. There is often something straightforward and nonchalant about Dominique's Monthélie, and that is precisely what I like about it.