Posted in Wine on Oct 25th, 2011
I found this clip today while rifling through the videos from our Europe trip. Here, we sit in France’s Southern Rhone Valley on the famed hill of Hermitage. **Wikipedia’s post about the history of the hill: “According to legend, the Knight Gaspard de Stérimberg returned home wounded in 1224 from the Albigensian Crusade and was […]
Le Pousseur (100% Syrah), Bonny Doon Vineyard, 2008, Central Coast (13.5% abv) There is something transporting about this wine, like being wrapped up in a harlot’s velvet shawl. You enter the room somewhat willingly, thinking you know what you’re in store for, wanting to keep it light and fun, only to find your mind and […]
Posted in Wine on Apr 22nd, 2009
In a land far, far away lies a tiny nook, a mere stitch in the massive quilt of the wine world. Tucked nearly out-of-sight amongst the steep valleys above France’s Rhône River, the sound of its name conjures up a land far from prying eyes and stretch limos of gawking tourists, its mere mention eliciting […]
