A Parker description

Aussie Grenache?

I was thinking an Aussie Shiraz, but Sparky Marquis had soething to do with it.

Was he reviewing one wine or an entire meal?

pavane

You're warm to the grenache. Have another go?

I Googled it, so I won't give it away, but I doubt that anyone will get very close, at least geographically. Dale's guess of Aussie Grenache may be closer to the mark than one would expect ;-)

Mark Lipton

Parker's descriptors for at least the past half decade have verged on self parody. Melted licorice? sweet tannins? Whatever...

Mark Lipton

If the chocolate did not melt, you would not really taste it, certainly not swallow it... and if the strawberry were not ripe, you would not eat it. Cherry cannot be used for marmalade, you would call it jam. As for burning embers, is there any other kind?

Come on Mark, google is fair play. and Dale kudos on the Grenache. I got so carried away with the chocolate that one gets in some Aussie Shiraz that I forgot the "perfect " wine for chocolate- Mark with you permission I would reveal Rasteau

2009 DOMAINE GRAND NICOLET Rasteau . . . (90-92 Points) The 2009 Cotes du Rhone-Villages Rasteau Vieilles Vignes, which comes from 60-year-old Grenache vines (70%) and 30-year-old Syrah vines (30% of the blend)

"Mike Tommasi" skrev i melding news: snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net...

Embers don't burn, do they?

Anders

(now, don't flame me, please :-)

I must apologize, Dale! I didn't expect anyone to read my post as a challenge, although you rose to it and did rather well, as Mark has pointed out.

My reason for the post was to illustrate the absolutely ridiculous level to which these descriptions have risen. I think Hugh Johnson once avered that they had become descriptions of fruit salad. There must be a more sensible way, somewhere between RP's and "this is a nice drop o' plonk" that will go well with ........etc., etc. Graham

I was quite taken aback by his guess, although it wasn't my intention to make this a competition. Graham

lleichtman wrote: So was it Parker or one of his minions?

It was Parker. He's still in charge of the Rhone Valley which, along with Bordeaux, may be only area he's still reviewing for TWA. He's relinquished the rest of France, Italy, Spain, Australia and now California, too.

Mark Lipton