#gibson block

Interesting juxta between two big reds last night… one obviously 3 or 4 times the cost and perceived availability, and produced 4 or 500 miles apart in California. One from the warm, exclusive Westside of Paso on fairly young vines–one from serious old-vines in chilly Mendocino. Both MASSIVE, one from proper Syrah massiveness: packing finesse and complexity in the tannic cracks; the other from…

Gibson Block

Ridiculously black, impenetrable, staining stuff. Black-ruby with a wisp of a purple rim. Burnt-tire, crushed-bug and piquantly-briary nose thick and crazily-perfumed, dark bitter olive pit and glycerin-y cherry in a black mash SO concentrated, SO thick with flavor, SO nuanced as to be obfuscating to reality. This is Syrah on Paso Robles proportions, a thick mash not nodding to Cornas or St.…

The Gibson Block is large wedge-shaped four-storey brick building constructed in 1913. It occupies four lots of a triangular block on Jasper Avenue at the eastern edge of Edmonton's pre-World War One commercial core.

View Larger Map