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Les Forots Cotes du Rhone Syrah 2009

April 2, 2012
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Jean Luc Colombo grew up in the kitchen of his mother’s excellent restaurant in Marseille and seemed destined to be involved in food and wine. He eventually took up his wine studies and based himself in Cornas where he makes rich and broody red wines from the terroir of Cornas. Jean Luc founded a his [...]

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Paul Mas 2011 Vin de Pays d’Oc Grenache – Syrah

March 6, 2012
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Here’s a soft, easy-to-drink wine from the south of France with a hint of spice and liquorice. It’s not one that you’d pull out on special occasions to impress guests or if you’re in the mood for oral explosions of taste. It doesn’t dominate proceedings, and you might not pay a huge amount of attention [...]

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Trinity Hill 2007 Hawkes Bay Syrah Gimblett Gravels

February 29, 2012
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New Zealand is best know for their zingy, zippy Sauvignon Blancs. They do however make other types of wine and the red wines of the country are slowly gaining international recognition. Hawkes Bay is one of the prime locations for red grapes; it’s the second biggest wine growing region in New Zealand, and one of [...]

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If You Like Shiraz, Try These…

October 3, 2011
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Shiraz, or Syrah as it is also known, is one of the most popular red wine grapes in the world. It delivers a heavyweight red wine packed with characteristics of pepper and spice. The grape is known as Shiraz in Australia. Australian Shiraz is robust and powerful, full of black fruit and with a velvety [...]

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Domaine Marie Faugeres 2010

September 30, 2011
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I like the label on this one. Modern, minimal, but still with a touch of art, of wildness. Its understated nature suits what’s inside quite well. It’s from the Faugeres region of the south of France, which only got its own appellation in 1982 but has by many accounts been producing excellent – and good [...]

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Marks & Spencer Cerro Syrah 2009

September 28, 2011
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This has to be one of the best and most surprising wines I’ve tried this year. Best because… well, it was amazing; most surprising because I’ve long steered clear of Chilean Syrah since I had a single dud bottle a few years ago. In fact, that it reminded me of one of the early wines [...]

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Odfjell Armador 2007 Syrah

September 26, 2011
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I recently wrote about the folks of DVine Wine and their organic and biodynamic wine selection. I’m not one who is too bothered by whether or not a wine proclaims itself to be either of those designations. I enjoy a wine if it’s well made, balanced and tastes good. However, I do find that increasingly [...]

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Cotes du Roussillon Villages, Les Vignes de Bila-Haut 2009, M. Chapoutier

September 5, 2011
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Along with parts of Provence, the Roussillon region is said to have the oldest cultivated vineyards in France, dating back to 500 BC. While wine producer M.Chapoutier hasn’t quite been there that long, on the evidence of this bottle he’s certainly made the most of the Mediterranean climate and diverse soils that characterise this part [...]

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Porcupine Ridge Syrah Viognier 2009

August 24, 2011
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Continuing with my animal-on-the-label-theme here, you wouldn’t expect to choose a Porcupine as the most endearing or glamorous animal to represent a bottle of wine. It seems as if everyone is getting in on the act though and the more exotic the animal on the label the better the chances of someone saying “Ooh, look, [...]

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Mac Forbes, 2007 Yarra Valley Syrah, NOT Shiraz….

July 25, 2011
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Blind tastings are always tricky: especially nowadays where winemakers are pushing the boundaries of what can be done with grapes in widely diverse regions of the world. So it was with a bit of trepidation when Le Meurice sommelier Estelle Touzey asked me what I thought she had poured for me recently at a blind [...]

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Stellenzicht Rhapsody 2004

April 8, 2011
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South African winemakers have been in a bit of a quandary regarding Pinotage in the last few decades but now seem more assured with what to do with this grape variety as it is increasingly being used as a blending component to lend backbone, structure and a bit of New World exotic elegance to wine [...]

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