Steve Edmunds, Edmunds St. John

“I had a wine from the south of France from a place called Palette. It was a ’94 Chateau Simone red wine, made mostly from Mourvedre grapes. It was a beautiful wine, drinking very nicely. It was a wonderful example of what a tremendous grape Mourvedre is. The wine exhibited all the neat things Mourvedre is known for--almost an animal character--as well as the smells of raw meat, blood and iodine. But it also had some fruit--black raspberry, cranberry and plum.”