2000 Domaine St. Anne St. Gervais les Mourillons

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We are down at the beach at Long Beach. That's Long Beach, Washington. It is a really long beach. We've been goofing around, cycling, eating good food, watching kites (the International Kite Festival), spotted a Wandering Tattler on the Cape Disappointment North Jetty, and reading (in my case) Pete Townshend's autobiography and (in Mme L's case) the ever present Maigret.

Lots of interesting wine - we loaded up at Vif and Seattle Wine Storage before departure. But one that I'll post on is this old Steinmeyer.

What is it about Steinmeyer of this era? It's just so damn good. This, all the piney, leathery, meaty elements, and a lovely balance. Reminded me some of a Tournon St. Joseph, perhaps in a less structured form.

Ah, vacances.
 
I'm guessing this is not the one that is mostly Mouvedre.
Do you still buy the recent vintages of Domaine St Anne wines, or just the older vintages?

A few years ago we went to Ocean Shores to dig razor clams.
We stayed in a one room cheap motel with a kitchenette and made chowder and drank Briords.
Great weekend.
 
originally posted by BJ:
What is it about Steinmeyer of this era? It's just so damn good.
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I don't know, but I wish I did. Mid-90s to early 2000s were fantastic.

I haven't had a new vintage since I don't know when.

Marc, this wine is 100% syrah, IIRC.
 
It would seem from the Danish site that the current Steinmayers took over from their father in the 1980s. That hardly precludes any change from winemaking since then, of course. I don't know if their syrah cuvee has only started to be aged in oak barriques recently for instance.
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
It would seem from the Danish site that the current Steinmayers took over from their father in the 1980s. That hardly precludes any change from winemaking since then, of course. I don't know if their syrah cuvee has only started to be aged in oak barriques recently for instance.
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I was surprised to see that too. This was definitely not oaky.

I honestly haven't had recent vintages of their wine. Click in Portland brought them in for a while; don't know if they still do. Rare Wine Co. does import them occasionally.
 
There is a mania for oaking wines and especially for oaking Syrah that started in the Southern Rhone in the mid-90s and has only gotten worse. The number of Gigondas that see massive amounts of new oak--and for everything, not just Syrah--is now at plague proportions. Cairanne and Vacqueyras is much better, but not immune. For some reason, in CdP, despite other forms of weirdness, new oak, while there, is not as rampant. This wine could easily have caught the bug at some point.
 
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