Herv Souhaut 2007 Syrah

Not as intense or in your face as say, Dard & Ribo. Not as polarizing either. Dangerously gulpable, thirst quenching wine. It strikes me that this might be a pretty good example of syrah in a very pure state.
 
I've never had the Souhaut Syrah but the St Epine reminded me a lot of Allemand.

Sold!

-Eden (this style is as lovable as it is gulpable)
 
Good news! I have only tasted his wines once, and it was at the frozen Chteau de Brz in what I privately termed the couloir de la mort, a grim passageway colder than anywhere else on the planet open to wine tasters or people not wearing live huskies on their necks. Tasting things at about 30F is not optimal. So: cold, cold, cold, as tasting notes does not bespeak a well-rounded experience.

Will try again.

The guy himself I've seen at several other tastings and is quite gregarious and smart. (If not mistaken, he was a philosophy professor*, before wine. And Parisian, like Cdric Bouchard...)

*Monsieur le professeur Loesberg, take note!
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
(If not mistaken, he was a philosophy professor*, before wine. And Parisian, like Cdric Bouchard...)
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Parisian philosophers make the best wines.
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Good news! I have only tasted his wines once, and it was at the frozen Chteau de Brz in what I privately termed the couloir de la mort, a grim passageway colder than anywhere else on the planet open to wine tasters or people not wearing live huskies on their necks. Tasting things at about 30F is not optimal. So: cold, cold, cold, as tasting notes does not bespeak a well-rounded experience.
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Have you considered creating a boorish thread about the experience? I guarantee you that it would be a good time.
 
originally posted by Roger LaMarque:
Have you considered creating a boorish thread about the experience? I guarantee you that it would be a good time.
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Temperatures were uncontrollable, but vomit-smelling glasses were more problematic. I roved with the ever-brilliant Kevin McK and the gorgeous Lee C. to find a washing point: to no avail. Still, you cannot be a tool when you're invited into the winter wonderland of thousands of millions (OK, several score) of natural winemakers in the frozen months of the Loire Valley. I mean, come on. Those Parker people would saw off their right arm to be able to participate in such things.
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:

Temperatures were uncontrollable, but vomit-smelling glasses were more problematic. I roved with the ever-brilliant Kevin McK and the gorgeous Lee C. to find a washing point: to no avail. Still, you cannot be a tool when you're invited into the winter wonderland of thousands of millions (OK, several score) of natural winemakers in the frozen months of the Loire Valley. I mean, come on. Those Parker people would saw off their right arm to be able to participate in such things.
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That wasn't nearly peevish enough. Keep trying, Newbie.
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Good news! I have only tasted his wines once...
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??? I'm fairly sure that I've read paeans about Souhaut's wines from you before I tried one of them at Toledo last year. Do I misremember?

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by Roger LaMarque:
That wasn't nearly peevish enough. Keep trying, Newbie.
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Nope. Your tone is still too aggressive. That's not going to work. It was a good theory, but really, you've gone over the top. I've had babies with more aggressive WD participants.*

*In joke.
 
originally posted by MLipton:
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Good news! I have only tasted his wines once...
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??? I'm fairly sure that I've read paeans about Souhaut's wines from you before I tried one of them at Toledo last year. Do I misremember?

Mark Lipton
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Mark, you so do!

Really have no experience other than frostbite!
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
originally posted by MLipton:
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Good news! I have only tasted his wines once...
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??? I'm fairly sure that I've read paeans about Souhaut's wines from you before I tried one of them at Toledo last year. Do I misremember?

Mark Lipton
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Mark, you so do!

Really have no experience other than frostbite!
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On reflection, I believe that I'd mistakenly assumed your approbation on the basis of VLM's hate of the wines. Hipster Syrah and all that. Apologies for doubting you.

Mark Lipton
 
Ouch! I am not a hipster.

Nobody saw that Puzelat tattoo.

Though I completely approve of judging a likely reaction via reactions to someone specific's tastesand I say that sans snark. I tend to marvel when people like Chardonnay, after my scarring Coad+Dougherty+Kane+who-knows-else New York experience.

I also dig being initialed "SB," which I dislike.

Come to think of it, at least I'm not "RS."
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Ouch! I am not a hipster.
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I never said that you were. False syllogism, SB. [insert emoticon here]

I also dig being initialed "SB," which I dislike.

Come to think of it, at least I'm not "RS."
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Considering that I could be labeled "ML" it could indeed be worse, winegrrrl.

Snarky Mark
 
Yes. And locally, Mr. Lawton is a fan. And I drank some in Paris. And I had dozens of opportunities to drink more in Paris, but decided that alcoholic diversity was the better part of drunken valor.
 
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