Dard et Ribo St. Joseph Blanc

This did not have much happening aromatically, less so than this producer's Crozes Hermitage Blanc we tried last weekend. On the palate though it was quite nice, white stone fruits, bees wax mouth feel, a touch of nuttiness on the finish.

Birthday lunch for Mike and Andrew : A mystery wine, seeming clearly again to be from the Rhone. A perfumed, lovely bouquet of garrigue, hay, grapefruit and apricot. The palate did not quite deliver on the bouquet, I was expecting more fruit sweetness and weight. It had a good acidic backbone and finished on those bright acids. In quite an oxidative style, that said to me ‘drink soon’.