A wonderful Grippat and a comment on yoga

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97 Vignes de l'Hospice. Great interplay of secondary elements, leather, minerals, old vine vinosity, and savory-ness unlike anything I've quite had in a wine. Sitting in a warmer vintage frame but clearly put together by an old, non-spoofy hand. Enjoyed with my Mom and aunt at my Grandma's assisted living center where my Grandma's recovering from double pneumonia. (By the way, 50 years of yoga clearly has long term health benefits).

This vineyard is a very cool place sitting up above Tournon. One day L and I walked over from Tain and trouped all the way up to it just to check out the view.

Shame that Guigal ended up with this vineyard.
 
Shame that Guigal ended up with this vineyard.
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"Shame" may be too weak a word...

As a consolation, the differently spelled Gripa cousins are still making terrific Saint-Joseph...
 
I think that hill has some of the same granite that is in the soil of Hermitage Bessards if I am remembering JLL correctly.

Sounds like a great bottle, ready to drink.

I hope your Grandma is feeling better. Does she still practice yoga?
 
That sounds right. You'll get to check it out Friday!

Thanks, she is doing better. Believe it or not, at 90, she still does yoga. Sometimes just breathing etc., but I think it is really helping her...
 
taking up yoga 50 years ago is pretty amazing....keeping at it for 50 is pretty amazing too. hope she bounces back quickly, Brad. also, it sounds like an interesting setting to enjoy that "hospice" wine too...maybe some ripe 97 juju was a good thing to bring.
 
Good for Grandma! I've been practicing yoga for five weeks now and I've already noticed some benefits. I'm sore all the time but it's done wonders for helping me to remember to breathe, and if vogueing ever becomes popular again at the discos I'll be a star. I do it at home while watching DVDs of various beautiful yoga drill instructors while wondering if in India to they also call the poses "Downward Facing Dog" and "Warrior"? And just what are those "sitz bones" they're always telling me to push up into the air? I also like that it's a much more practical exercise to pursue than things like racquetball or horseracing. As long as you don't get too intimidated while watching the beautiful, correctly-breathing contortionists on the DVDs, it's about the best thing I've done for myself in awhile. I highly recommend it.

But back to CWD, I haven't had any Grippat wines since the early 1990s but I remember their St Josephs being held up to me as beacons of traditional winemaking, like Juge's Cornas or Levet Cote-Rotie.

-Eden (only about 2549 weeks more to go before I can say that I've been practicing yoga for fifty years...if I'm successful, I'll be 102 years young!)
 
originally posted by Eden Mylunsch:
I haven't had any Grippat wines since the early 1990s
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The last vintage was 1999, I think. Guigal bought the estate in 2000.
 
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