Goisot

Bourgogne Rouge

Cotes d'Auxerre

$14.99/bottle

$13.49 (10% Off This Weekend)

The Wine... I keep getting pulled back to these wines. In the decade since I first tasted them I remain incapable of dislodging Goisot from my subconscious. It would be handy if I could: selling (even the best) wines made in the Cotes de Auxerre is arduous labor. Inside the bottle, all is well, compelling even. Elemental France is present in these wines: a mineral underpinning, as clear an example of the role of limestone in wine flavor as you are likely to find. But there is currently a small market for Pinot Noir made just south of Paris, or Sauvignon Blanc (or Gris) from Burgundy, for Irancy, for whites that taste completely of Chablis but can't use that recognizable moniker on the front label. I've been selling wine long enough to know that relative anonymity is often a good thing: you won't have to take out a second mortgage to buy cases of Goisot wine.