Tag: Syrah
A Wine of the Timeless Wind
Eternity
He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy
He who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sunrise
William Blake - 1757-1827
The...
A Thing of Kalimna (Beauty)
A Thing of Kalimna
I partly organized and then wholly attended a small ‘trade-&-friends’ dinner last week; it had a ‘bring-a-bottle’ theme, which is an...
The Beast
The Beast
Mont Ventoux; for the world's finest cyclists its name is legend, “The Beast of Provence”, a will-sapping, heart-breaking, soul-destroying stage of the...
1955, The Old Railroad Vineyard and Other Terroirs
Chateau Haut Blanville is a family owned winery in the Languedoc region of southern France.
The winery sources its fruit from a number of vineyards...
Roasted Slopes
The Wines of the Cote Rotie, (Roasted Hillside) on the sharp rising slopes at the Northern end of the Rhone Valley are some of...
Chile Rising
Take one of Chile’s finest winemakers, a precocious young South African Chef and an imperial old Chinese House and something truly remarkable is bound...