He grows hot climate grapes like Syrah, Marsanne, and Roussanne in the Santa Ynez Valley of California, where it is dry and hot, plain and simple. It does not have the intensity of say, the 2007 Gonon St. Joseph Les Oliviers, but it's just delicious, really a pleasure to drink. know, it's a California wine! Then I saw "12.5% MORE >>

Flight Two: All Syrah all the Time 2005 Edmunds St. If you want to make French wine, do it in FranceEdmund St. Parker Jr, On Edmunds St. Not as much breeding as their St. Joseph but a fascinating dance between tart acidity and animal and blueberry.) 2005 Herv Souhaut St. Epine $45 St. Epine? MORE >>

considered a St. Joseph, imagining the marriage of bacon flavors. But I decided that Syrah, particularly young Syrah, which is all I own, would overpower everything but the bacon. Right now I'm eating a bowl of orecchiette with turnip greens, and it's completely delicious. It has no sauce," he would say. It needs a sauce." MORE >>

beautiful bottle of Gonon Syrah from the hills outside of St Joseph , and I no longer fear winter. Last week we had nasty, windy, rainy, bitingly cold weather in NYC. It inspired me to do some winter cooking, a delicious and very satisfying beef braise. Add salt to taste, and that's it. Many meals are possible here. MORE >>

Gonon's red wines bear little resemblance to those massive Syrah's that ooze with concentrated gobs of fruit. Gonon's St. Joseph is really is a wonderful wine, showcasing the nobility of the Syrah grape and the St. Joseph terroir in their meaty and mineral glory. Although Gonon's St. Joseph. MORE >>