2006 M. Chapoutier Crozes-Ermitage Les Varonniers Crozes-Hermitage Syrah
A more advanced bottle in early February made me think I had to rush my last two bottles, but this one suggests otherwise. This was a very fine bottle with red and black raspberry fruit, rare beef, sweet roasted fennel, and a lot of sage-y garrique on the finish. Everything you could want, really.
