My wife has recently been on a nine-month long diet that forbade wine, any cheese worth eating, shellfish and bloody meat amongst other things. Happily the diet is now over and red wine and rare steak is back on the menu. We celebrated with some thick-cut ribeye steaks and a bottle of Domaine du Colombier’s wonderful 2009 Crozes-Hermitage…
Posts Tagged ‘Syrah’
Sep
15
Tasting Rhone 2009 – Day 3 more Chateauneuf du Pape
By Camilla Bowler
Day 3 started at one of the most prestigious estates in Chateauneuf du Pape – Clos des Papes. It is always a pleasure to visit here. Vincent Avril showed us samples of the red from four different foudres, and also finally an indicative blend that he has made for the first time this year in a fifth foudre. The quality here was …
Feb
02
Sweet and sour Syrah
By Rebecca Gibb, www.rebeccagibb.com
One drop of rotundone is enough to make an Olympic size swimming pool smell peppery. One gram of this potent stuff could make the entire Australian Shiraz harvest smell peppery too. This compound was identified last year and was one of the more technical topics tackled at Hawke’s Bay’s Syrah symposium.
While there were a few tedious talks due to the bumbling nature of …
Nov
02
Clos du Sixte Lirac 05 Alain Jaume
From the up and coming appellation of Lirac, Southern Rhone, the Clos du Sixte is a real star. A blend of Grenache noir, Syrah and Mourvèdre creates a deep, dark and intense wine with everything from cocoa and roasted coffee to kirsch and spice complimented by a hint of floral notes.