Lunchtime and a great big salad with Honey-Baked Ham, and Jarlsberg Cheese with lettuce, tomato carrots and and a nice vinaigrette dressing, and an opportunity to sample the 2001 Columbia Winery Columbia Valley Syrah.Washington State's first winery to release syrah wines from vines from France planted in the Red Willow Vineyard, this syrah is a great example of am American made syrah. Deep purple color, this wine mixes ripe fruit in a bigger wine than might be expected. (kinda overpowered the salad). This is a wine better suited with steak (which we will remedy tonight with a couple of steaks on the grill and the rest of the bottle (or yea, and probably at least one other)!
Dark fruit, Plums and red berries, with a little spice and vanilla with nice acidity and tannic structure, this one is 87 points and for under 10 bucks a good QPR. Now for those steaks!!!
1 comments:
Nick, You always seem to be writing reviews for us from the nicest places....Why is it I am writing from a boring office desk? Enjoy the steaks and the Islands..
It seems like a fabulous bottle of wine for the price. The weather is nice in DC today. You have motivated me to knock off early and buy a few Ribeyes.
I have a Arrowood "Sara Lee Vineyard" in my cellar that is dying to be opened. I'll let you know how it tasted. Have a great weekend! Gerry WineGent
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