With a dinner of mesquite-grilled ribeye steaks, Jean pulled the title
bottle from the cellar, which proved to be an excellent choice.

c: garnet with a hint of brick at the edge
n: initially reticent, opening with time to show smoke, game, minerals,
cedar, and dark fruit
p: acidic on entry, and initially a touch thin, rounding out later and
turning into a medium-full bodied wine with good depth of fruit and a
hint of gaminess.

This was the regular (low level) Crozes from Graillot from a year that
has been largely overlooked in the wake of '98-'00. Very nice now, with
no overt tannins, it clearly is not as profound as his Guiraude but
still a very good Syrah for the $16 I paid for it.

Mark Lipton

I think I still have one bottle of the 95 regular - you have determined
what wine I shall pull for dinner tonight!

Bill S. wrote:
> I think I still have one bottle of the 95 regular - you have determined
> what wine I shall pull for dinner tonight!
>

The '95 was a profound wine in its youth. I hope that the intervening
years have only improved it.

Mark Lipton