I chanced upon a stash of the Edmunds St. John Rocks and Gravel 2002 at a local liquor store yesterday and combined them with a bunch of other wines to complete a case and trigger the 20% off sale. Though the bottles were dusty at a venue of dicey provenance (a classic New England packie), this grenache-less rendition of one of my favorite drinks blasted forth from the glass when opened and is drinking at full throttle. Beautiful stuff that drinks like the label says it should, all forest floor, flowers, and smoke. Wow. All that for $15.19, delivered (not counting the annoying new MA liquor tax).
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Lucky 7
- Thread starter Dan McQ
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Arjun Mendiratta
Arjun Mendiratta
Nice score. (Although be careful, I've heard there are some fakes going around...)
R&G isn't always grenache-less, isn't it?
R&G isn't always grenache-less, isn't it?
To quote the label:
"2002, a numeric palindrome, and therefore, by nature, anomalous, gave us no suitable Grenache with which to fashion our best known wine, Rocks and Gravel.... ....gives an expression quite different from the Provenal countryside evoked by the earlier wines; here we have something that almost seems to suggest, instead, the environs of the Cte d'Or. How lucky!"
Steve Edmunds
Steve Edmunds
makin me quiver
like the call of the hoot-owl
through the mist on the river...
like the call of the hoot-owl
through the mist on the river...