L'Hommage À Galet Sonoma Valley Red Rhone Blend

Passover wine. Kosher by decree of Rabbi Sheldon. How is this night different from all other nights...

My baby among the Giants tonight. Every time I open one of these 2011 tastes more like the #chateauneufdupape it was modeled after.

Really fun to revisit this especially alongside the 2012. Amazing what 5% more Syrah and 5 more years in the bottle will do for a wine.

Quite frankly, our best effort yet. Apparently it's all about election year L'Hommage...#sixteen600

The #delectableapp faux pas of posting your own juice, sure but I hadn't had the '08 for days. The smoke and power of the syrah is mellowing out and the subtle red fruit of grenache is coming out to play. Fun to be a part of something this alive and dynamic. I guess that's why we do this...

This wine's evolution has been amazing. Tonight it started with blackberry pie and opened into sagey ganja and cured pancetta. Drinkable but still such a baby.

Woody, rich and fruity.

A grenache/Syrah blend, berry quality, quite lively, with restraint somehow.

So delicious!! The fruit still comes through very nicely. Well balanced.

Enjoying watching/drinking this fine thing as it opens/morphs its magic with steak tartare and heirloom radishes @ Sonoma's The Girl & The Fig. Black to red fruit on first blush coating front center and back silk clothes clinging to cool skin slow dancing its way home... Salute