Paul Jaboulet Aine Domaine de Thalabert Crozes-Hermitage 2010

Like a light red French sipper? DELETE this one then! This ain’t it!!

No, no, we have a legendary producer, Jaboulet, and somehow, digging in an importer's warehouse in Beaune, we turned up a small batch of this 93-POINT, inky-dark, heady, perfumey, smoky BEAST at a jaw-dropping price -- truly amazing for wine of this pedigree! How do we even do it sometimes? Flabbergasted, we are…

Anyway, back to BIG. This has a few years quietly aging in a cool warehouse, and while still young it has come together beautifully. We simply can’t argue with Robert Parker, Jr.'s writeup…."It boasts a dense purple color along with a beautiful perfume of camphor, licorice, forest floor, black currants and Christmas fruitcake." RIGHT? Does it not make you want to get into a killer burger or a tomahawk steak or something? At this PRICE??

Seriously though, this is big, powerful, mouth-saturating goodness --- Syrah at its finest from one of the great masters of this grape. Only bummer is how much there is….better move quick if this sounds all mouth-wateringly awesome to you as it is to us! Good luck!