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Syrah - the end of an era?
For the past 20 years, the last weekend in
April or the first weekend in May has always meant the same thing for thousands
of wine lovers in California. Each spring at this time, we hop in our cars and
make a pilgrimage to the town of Paso Robles for a round of inebriated bowling
followed by two days of Syrah, Grenache, Carignane,
Cinsault, and every other grape you'd expect in the line-up at an event named
Hospice du Rhône.
The event, which grew out of wine lover
Matt Garretson's love of Viognier, has long been the premier Rhône-focused
event in the country, and attracted a significant number of top French
producers every...
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