Dale Williams wrote:

>>I'll confess to shooting my mouth off here, but tasted so ripe, round , and
>>red-fruity I assumed Grenache>
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>
> Actually I just did some googling, and some notes show the 2000 Mon Coeur as
> 80% Grenache/20% Syrah (the 2001 is 50/50). With a Syrah-master like Chave one
> might assume Syrah, but unlike the Voge CdR (his young Cornas vines), the Chave
> is a negociant wine. And mostly from vineyards in the South owned by his
> friends.

Thanks, Dale. I was just too lazy to Google for myself.

Mark Lipton