Comparing apples and oranges?

Excellent question!

She's the Master of Wine, she can turn a cab into a shiraz. Miraculous.

Unless she knows something we don't............. ? Or maybe this was the trick question in the test for Master of Wine?

Scarcely fair to criticize JR for this article. She didn't write it, we don't know who chose wines, and the only thing that says it was a Syrah tasting is the title (apparently written by this winery). Text just says "important 2001s."

I don't have access to the page because I did not pay, but it appears that this is indeed her article and the title was not written by the winery:

The search on her site finds the following excerpt with link to full text:

Very Important 2001 Syrahs/Shirazes

Had a most frustrating look at some Very Important 2001s the other night: Penfolds Grange, Hermitage la Chapelle, Chapoutier Le Pavillon Ermitage, Delas’s Marquise de Tourette and their...

cheers

Mike