I dig stuff like this. Every Sunday through November, Spruce in San Francisco invites guests to enjoy its

famous burger while exploring the out-of-this-world wines of Burgundy. The classic comfort dish comes

with pickled onions, zucchini and remoulade atop an English muffin. YUM! It’s offered with a selection of

boutique red Burgundies.

The burger’s $14 and the Burgundies will be offered at three different price points: $12, $25 and $50, with a

flight going for $40. Sure, it’s pricey, but what can I say? Terroir ain’t cheap, my friends.

The selection of wines rotates each week and will include Saint-Romain, Les Montots and Aubert de Villaine.

If you’re really feeling crazy, you can doll up your burger with housemade pancetta for $3. For $13, you can

have a side of seared foie gras.

If you really can’t afford this, stay home, fire up the grill and have a Bargain Bordeaux and Burger party. Hurry, before it starts raining.

I had a great wine last night. It was a Pierre Morey, the highly-regarded biodynamic winemaker in Burgundy who also heads up the cellar at Domaine LeFlaive. The 2003 Monthelie is 100% Pinot Noir and smooth with ideal structure (the alcohol level is also an ideal 12.5%, at least for me). It retails for $33, which I’m happy to pay for a Pinot. You can get it at Coit Liquor on Columbus St. in SF, or Swirl on Castro, whose inventory is about 40 percent biodynamic. By the way, Jenny came back from a business trip in Denver where she went WINETASTING. She noticed that many of the grapes came from Lodi (hello, that’s because Lodi has magic soil), but brought me back a merlot that’s predominantly Colorado grapes. Yes, I’ll let you know.

Someone recently asked me for a recommendation on a good French pinot noir. Seems they wanted to compare them to the stuff coming out of the Central Coast. I told them to try Louis Jadot’s Les Charmes Chambolle-Musigny Premier Cru. It’s $40 and has that class Burgundy taste of dried cherries and cocoa. Have it with a beef stew as soon as the weather drops.