Jean wanted a special dinner tonight to celebrate her return to a "normal" diet, so I cooked venison steaks with roasted potatoes, sweet potatoes and onions with sauteed bok choy and opened:
1990 Chapoutier Hermitage "La Sizeranne" nose: pencil lead, a hint of licorice, black pepper, blueberry palate: smooth tannins, slightly polished, decent acidityThis bottle is a remnant from my Parkeriste days and, while it was a perfectly decent bottle of Syrah, it had nothing about it that communicated Hermitage or even the Rhone Valley to me. Viewed outside of that lens, it was a fine example of California Syrah ;-)
Mark Lipton