Blue Eye'd Boy & Brunier Racines for Family BBQ Rib Dinner
Following a hectic busy late summer Saturday of family sports and other activities that included no less than five grandkids', soccer games, and Erin running her 39th half marathon, (finishing third woman overall and first in her age group).
We gathered at our house for a Saturday night BBQ rib dinner and opened two special big red wines from our cellar for the occasion.
Partly in light of son Alec being here we served this hearty Australian Shiraz from Mollydooker, one of our favorite go-to wines, and a declared signature wine for our 'blue eye'd boy', son Alec, along with 'Alec's Blend' from Napa Valley Lewis Cellars.
We also served this Brunier Lynch Les Pallieres Racines Rhone. We discovered and tasted this wine with Linda, Alec, and Vivianna at the winery in Chateauneuf-du-Pape during our Southern France Wine Experience back in 2018.
Mollydooker Blue Eye'd Boy McLaren Vale Shiraz 2012
This is one of our favorite go-to wines, and a declared signature wine for our 'blue eye'd boy', son Alec, along with 'Alec's Blend' from Napa Valley Lewis Cellars.
This was awarded Wine Spectator and Robert Parker's Wine Advocate.
https://www.cellartracker.com/wine.asp?iWine=1762926
Tasting this wine with producer Daniel Brunier at the estate |
Brunier Lynch Domaine les Pallieres "Les Racines" Gigondas 2016
As noted above, we discovered and were first introduced to this label while visiting the Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe. Châteauneuf-du-Pape winery estate during our Rhone Wine Experience back in 2018.
This was rated 96 points by Jeb Dunnuck and James Suckling, 94-96 points by Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, and 94 points by Vinous.
This is 80% Grenache, 15% Syrah – Cinsault (co-planted) and 5% Clairette made from the oldest 75-year-old vines of the estate located around the domaine in Gigonda, the appellation to the north and east of Chateauneuf-du-Pape.
We visited the Gigondas appellation during our Rhone Valley Wine Experience back in 1999.
The area sits about 200-400 feet in elevation, higher than the lower appellation sites lying closer to the Rhone River in the valley, with soils that are a mix of broken limestone and clay. The resulting wines are invariably darker black with more dense and concentrated fruits, more akin to the typically more prestigious Châteauneuf-du-Pape wines.
Dark blackish purple garnet colored, full bodied, complex layered spice-accented black currant, black raspberry and notes of blueberry, baking spices, olive tapanade, herbs, black tea with gripping but smooth polished tannins on the long finish.
RM 92 points.
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