Yeah, I know. Supposed to be writing about communications, technology, social change. How you can save the world. Not today. It’s Sunday, goddamit. It’s summer. Time to relax, eat, drink.
News of the day is this fantastic wine made from syrah grapes. Crozes-Hermitage, 2000. From Les Vins de Vienne, Cuilleron-Gaillard-Villard. Loved it. Get your hands on a bottle if you can.
I’m just learning about wines. And have largely avoided French wines, favoring Portugese, Spanish, and Argentinian producers. But this was lovely.
According to The New York Times‘s Eric Asimov:
Crozes-Hermitage is the largest appellation in the Northern Rhone… A good Crozes-Hermitage offers the particular smoky, spicy Rhone expression of the syrah grape, with flavors that are more olive, bacon and thyme than sweet fruit. Acidity gives freshness, and fine tannins add structure.
I still don’t have words yet to describe wines. But here’s my best shot: soft tannins, tobacco, smooth. Really lovely and gentle. And the smell? Beautiful. Like leaves on the forest floor on a warm fall day. I love smelling wine before I drink it.
Throw a dinner party. Invite social revolutionaries. Drink a few bottles of this stuff. Change will happen. I promise you.
Mon, Jul 20, 2009
Food & Wine