Copain Cailloux & Coccinelle Syrah Walla Walla Valley 2003

Deep, hazy red.

Breakfast sausage (Jimmy Dean?), licorice, menthol, wilted greens on the nose - this should be served with eggs and a tortilla.

Absolutely packed with flavor in the mouth - black raspberry the only addition from what the nose yields. Great sweetness that flies under the radar, the main impression is one of tremendous, grainy, concentration of flavor. In fact, this is very similar to the impression of the Bastide Blanche of a couple of days ago.

This is stupidly good, and so not "New-World". I would love to throw this in a blind tasting of Northern Rhones. The "experts"
would eat major dookie.


$35