Wine Review : A Good Year : Chateau les Eydins & Chateau la Canorgue

No, not really going to review them other than say that two bottles were consumed on successive nights,, one from Duflot's farmhouse, one from the chateau Russell Crowe inherits in the movie.
Both were shiraz and grenache, Canorgue with carignan variety as well. Vintages 20007,2008. Smooth and delicate, similar, not surprising as they are located within a mile of each other, both grown with organic methods.
Our journey to the Luberon is complete with a 12km jog to the market at Gargas this morning and back.
In 2008 Tour de France came through the Luberon and past our hotel room. It took only an hour to visut before finishing the stage at Digne les Bains...where we were sitting under an oak tree 150m from the finish sipping ice cold nesquick offered repeatedly by a young man dressed in yellow.
Happy to have had the chance to sit still for two weeks and taste how almonds, wheat, olives, figs, grapes, cherries, limestone etc can add colour and inspiration to so many people by artisans who know how to create something beautiful and delicate through skill, care and lovexx

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