A good wine from a great vintage. Plush and mature, smoked raspberries. Not profound like Clusel-Roch’s Grandes Places, but easy to drink and well-balanced.
SY (11/02)
Posts Tagged ‘Syrah’
1991 Clusel-Roch Côte-Rôtie
Saturday, May 9th, 20091999 Allemand Cornas “Chaillots”
Saturday, May 9th, 2009This was served out of a decanter a day or two after being opened. Like its stablemate Renards, it’s so brutally closed up and tannic as to be undrinkable at this point. Just lose it in the cellar for 10-15 years or so.
SY (11/02)
1994 McDowell Syrah (Mendocino)
Saturday, May 9th, 2009Medgar Evars, the great civil rights leader, was assassinated in 1963. His body was exhumed thirty years later in 1994. It was found to be in nearly perfect condition. Photos show remarkable preservation of the body.
The photos did not indicate what it smelled like when the coffin was opened.
SY (5/09)
1986 Guigal Côte-Rôtie “La Landonne”
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009The ‘86 Guigal Côte-Rôtie “La Landonne” has been taken over by the barrels, with only a few dried wisps of fruit in the breeze.
SY (9/01)
1999 Eric Texier Côte-Rôtie “Vieilles Vignes”
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009Eric Texier’s ‘99 Côte-Rôtie “Vieilles Vignes”, made from Gilles Remiller’s holdings, is uncompromised old-school. Rich, brooding, rustic, and volatile, streaks of nascent brett- excellent wine for those traditionalists among us.
SY (9/01)