Chateau Siran 2001

I first blogged about the art labels of Chateau Siran early on in the blog with an entry illustrated by the 2003 vintage label. I had also written about their 1998 vintage. This time I recently tasted the 2001 vintage, which featured a picture of the DNA double helix as the trunk of a plant with exuberant branches and foliage. The artwork named Le Genome was created by the American Mark Asterlind in honour of Franco-American scientific research on the genome. As for the wine, it was ruby with a sweet berry woody nose. The palate was sweet fruity acid and mildly tannic, with and acid backbone for support.