2014 Thierry Allemand Cornas Chaillot

Community Tasting Notes (36) Avg Score: 92.8 points

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  5/5/2024 - Derek Darth Taster Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Late night at home with J. 1 day old bottle. Tasted blind. Drank in Grassl Cru. Classic Northern Rhone for me.
  Appearance is clear, deep intensity, ruby colour. Legs.
  Nose is clean, medium+ intensity, with aromas of dark green olives, herbs, dark stems, black pepper, blackberries, old book with yellowed pages, tinge of soy. Developing.
  On the palate, dry, high acidity, medium+ alcohol (13.5%), resolving refined high tannins, full body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of savoury meat and earth, dark green olives, black pepper, herbs and ginseng, blackberries, black cherries, leather. Very long grippy leathery finish.
  Very good quality. Just feels a little older than expected for 2014.

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  3/17/2024 - acyso wrote: 93 Points

  Heater week; 3/8/2024-3/17/2024 (Chicago, IL): I preferred this a little bit more than the 2013 tonight. It's a little more black-fruited and full on the palate, which I appreciated. Darker complexion, more richness and depth on the palate, and just a slightly more intense wine.

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  1/28/2024 - jviz wrote: 95 Points

  This was excellent, and perhaps the best 2014 Northern Rhone I’ve had along with Gonon. It’s a vintage where the silky weightless texture of the producer shines through. I get raspberry fruit, strong black pepper, light green olive, a touch of leather. This one is all about texture and should do awesome with more time sideways.

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  1/27/2024 - Nutty08 Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Blind - guessed Cote Rotie, then Cornas. Was more polished than I was expecting from Cornas but made sense once the producer was revealed. Dark purple fruits, quite spicey with a rather gamey peppery profile. Drinking pretty well but there's still considerable structure here--tannins and acidity.

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  12/17/2023 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:

  A suggestion of meat and leather to begin with. It breathed up wonderfully well and had such pure raspberry and blood plum fruits. There were notes of bacon fat, licorice and violets too. It was plush and layered and had perfectly ripe tannins carrying the long finish. Served from Magnums.

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