few domaines use the Sur Gamay name on the label with reds for fear it will confuse consumers

21 ha parcel of 100+ year old vines in Quartier des Marei Haut)

(from Les Grands Champs and Les Famines)

Here too there is excellent energy to the precise

Moderate reduction masks the nuance of the fruit though there is both good tension and freshness to the beautifully detailed and lightly stony medium-bodied flavors that possess a seductive

Magpie Estate, Blacksock other_regions_australia few domaines use the SurThe prodigious 1998 Shiraz Mourvedre Black Sock (80% Shiraz and 20% Mourvedre from 60 100 year old vines) is a blockbuster. Aged for a whopping 30 months in American wood, this opaque purple colored wine offers an almost essence of blackberry and cherry fruit intermixed with earth, leather, charcoal, and new wood. The wine is full bodied, spectacularly concentrated, with multiple levels to its mid palate, and a whoppingly powerful, rich finish. I was