Claire Laroche Bourgogne Hautes Cotes de Beaune Rouge 2019

Spend time at an international wine fair, and you'll never see Pierre behind a booth. You'll instead find him in the shadows, with awkwardly loose black jeans and a crumpled Carrefour bag hanging at his waist.

This is one of those wines where the importer wasn't allowed to tell us who produced it thus they made up a name.  The call the producer...Pierre.  That's all we know.  I do know that the grapes were harvested from an AOC above the Bourgogne rouge type wines.

Each bottle was open-knit and beautiful, and importantly without excessive wood as sometimes we can see with this tier that sits above Bourgogne Rouge in terms of cost-basis and overall quality.  This is red Burgundy on a whole new level