Given my last post was all about the Northern Rhône, it makes sense that the next wine tasted comes from there. I’ve mentioned before that Yves Cuilleron can do no wrong, and this wine is certainly one of my favourites.
Tasted from a magnum, for transparency’s sake.
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If Burgundy was where I first fell in love with French wines, then the Rhône Valley, specifically the Northern Rhône was where that love was cemented. Having been brought up on Shiraz, and Hunter Shiraz very early on, these Syrah wines were the wines that showed me what the grape was capable of.
Forget, especially if you’re Australian, what you think you know about Shiraz. Because Kansas is going bye-bye.
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The last tasting note from a bunch of wines tasted over the last little while and we’re right back in the Northern Rhône and a 100% Syrah from Cuilleron
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It comes as no surprise to me that, as a lad that’s found himself in the Hunter Valley over the last two years, I have begun to develop a natural affinity towards Syrah/Shiraz in all it’s forms.
More recently, that’s taken my tastebuds to France and the Northern Rhône.
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