Cornas Fest
Shane's abode, Portland OR
Tasted Saturday, January 19, 2013 by KeithAkers with 506 views
Introduction
Shane knew my love of Cornas, so he arranged this dinner for his place when I was in town. There were 13 of us, which was also going to mean a lot of great wine.
Flight 1 (18 Notes)
Closing
What a blast of a night. All sorts of great food with a ton of great wine and conversation. It's trips like these that keep me coming back.
1998 Vilmart & Cie Champagne Cuvée Creation 94 Points
France, Champagne
Nose: Deep and thought provoking nose filled with tones of brioche, leesy tones, creamed pears, baking spices, white fruits, green apples, and a touch of floral tones.
Taste: Medium/full bodied with medium+ acidity. There is a real richness while also having some nice power with a leesy base and tones of brioche, creamed pears, white fruits, and green apples.
Overall: This is complex and still youthful at the same time. This was from magnum and had a lighter gold color to it.
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2008 Pierre Gonon St. Joseph 90 Points
France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, St. Joseph
Nose: This is packed with all sorts of black pepper tones, black cherries, black fruits, and some bits of violets. There is nice depth to this, but it shows the vintage.
Taste: Full bodied with nice and chewy tannins. This is all backed up by medium+ acidity and balanced tones of black pepper, spice tones, black fruits, and some violets.
Overall: This shows the vintage in it's readiness and depth. It has a real savory quality on both the nose and palate, but just slightly lacks depth.Still, it's an attractive Gonon that delivers what you want.
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1995 Cave de Tain Cornas Les Nobles Rives 91 Points
France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Cornas
Nose: There is a nice gamey quality to the nose along with tones of black fruits, black cherries, leather tones, and dark spices. This has nice depth and is very well balanced.
Taste: Full bodied with chewy, but supporting tannins. The feel is on the classier side with nicely balanced tones of black fruits, black cherries, leather, and black pepper tones.
Overall: This was a real nice start to the Cronas portion of the tasting. Shows good maturity while still being able to go for a good while.
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1995 Domaine Durand Cornas Flawed
France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Cornas
Bummer, this was corked, but you could detect a real good wine underneath.
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2003 Jean-Luc Colombo Cornas La Louvée 90 Points
France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Cornas
Nose: This is definitely on the richer side with tones of liqueur, dark red fruits, licorice, black fruits, and dark red berries.
Taste: Full bodied with very grippy tannins. This is still extremely young along with rich tones of dark red fruits, black cherries, liqueur, and dark red berries.
Overall: This shows off both the vintage and the producer, but is far from overdone. It isn't ready for primetime yet and does need more years to develop and smooth out.
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1998 Alain Voge Cornas Vieilles Vignes 93 Points
France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Cornas
Nose: Deep and savory nose with tones of black pepper, leather tones, dark spices, animale tones, and black cherries.
Taste: Full bodied with real good and chewy tannins along with medium+ acidity. This is still on the younger side with rustic tones of black pepper, leather, black cherries, and spice tones.
Overall: This was real open on the nose, with the palate being on the coarse side. This was one of the better wines on the night and showed great.
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2000 Cave de Tain Cornas Les Nobles Rives 90 Points
France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Cornas
Nose: Open knit and savory nose with tones of black fruits, spice tones, rawhide leather, and black cherries.
Taste: Fuller bodied with good firm tannins that aren't too overpowering. There is medium acidity along with tones of black fruits, black cherries, and some rawhide leather.
Overall: This was showing nicely. It had good balance and good youthful tones on both the nose and palate.
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2000 Domaine du Tunnel (Stéphane Robert) Cornas Cuvée Prestige 90 Points
France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Cornas
Nose: This has a nice and meaty quality to it with balanced and very good tones of black cherries, black olives, black fruits, some roasted meats, and spice tones.
Taste: Full bodied with good chewy tannins and medium+ acidity. Well balanced with tones of black fruits, roasted meats, black olives, and black cherries.
Overall: This was showing very nicely. There is a good amount of black fruits on both the nose and palate with good depth on both as well too.
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2001 Domaine du Tunnel (Stéphane Robert) Cornas Cuvée Prestige 91 Points
France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Cornas
Nose: This starts off with a good amount of black fruits, but then leans into tones of spices, earth tones, leather, and some meat tones.
Taste: Full bodied with silky tannins and medium+ acidity. Well balanced with good depth and youthful tones of earth, leather, black fruits, and some black cherries.
Overall: This is still showing some youth. It is developing nicely and has all the tones you'd want from Cornas. The tannins are very noticeable, but they don't seem to be too much at this time.
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2004 Domaine Vincent Paris Cornas Granit 60 91 Points
France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Cornas
Nose: There is a real minerality to the nose with crushed rocks striking right off the bat along with tones of dark red fruits, olives, black fruits, leather, and some dark red cherries.
Taste: Medium/full bodied with medium+ acidity and good silky tannins. There are really nice and classy tones of crushed rocks, olives, black fruits, and dark red cherries as well.
Overall: This is a real classy Cornas. It's clearly on the younger side, but it's drinking very well right now. It could use a couple more years, but one can't be faulted for opening it now.
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2008 Domaine Vincent Paris Cornas Granit 60 89 Points
France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Cornas
Nose: Nice and balanced nose with tones of black pepper, black fruits, olives, leather, and violets. This is open to drink, but it is lacking some depth.
Taste: Full bodied with medium acidity and youthful tannins. This has some youthful and balanced tones of black pepper, black fruits, olives, and violets.
Overall: This is showing the vintage. It lacks some depth, but is fairly open to drink and is very enjoyable.
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2000 Noël Verset Cornas 93 Points
France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Cornas
Nose: There is a very meaty and bloody take on the nose with savory tones of black olives, black fruits, black cherries, pepper, and roasted meats. There is very good depth to the nose and it has a rustic expression to it as well.
Taste: Full bodied with big and chewy tannins. There are really good and savory and rustic tones of roasted meats, black olives, black fruits, incense, black cherries, and pepper tones.
Overall: This was a gorgeous Verset. It is fairly open for drinking currently, but is obviously on the younger side as well. This has a long life ahead of it.
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1999 Noël Verset Cornas 95 Points
France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Cornas
Nose: Insanely complex and aromatic nose with all sorts of depth. The tones of leather, black fruits, black cherries, roasted meats, animale, and black olives.
Taste: There is a lot of youth on the palate with a real rusticity to the full bodied feel and chewy tannins. Beneath lies a panoply of leather, black cherries, animale, black olives, and spice tones with black pepper as well.
Overall: This was a gorgeous wine that kept getting better in the glass. This has a long way to go and is stunning right now as well.
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1999 Domaine Auguste Clape Cornas 93 Points
France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Cornas
Nose: Very aromatic and savory nose with rustic tones of dark red fruits, herbs, licorice, leather tones, animale, and dark berry tones.
Taste: Full bodied with good and chewy tannins along with medium+ acidity. There is very good balance with really good tones of herbs, leather, animale, dark red fruits, and some dark berries.
Overall: This was showing beautifully. While there is the obvious rustic quality, it has a bit of class to it as well.
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1999 Thierry Allemand Cornas Reynard 93 Points
France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Cornas
Nose: This is nice and balanced with tones of dark red fruits, spices, leather, berries, and black pepper. There is nice depth to it with an expressive side as well.
Taste: Full bodied with massive tannins and classy tones of dark red fruits, spices, leather, and black pepper. The structure is very big on this and shows the youth.
Overall: This was showing a lot of youth. The nose is more open than the palate, but there is a lot of class here right now and it should improve.
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2004 Thierry Allemand Cornas Chaillot
France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Cornas
This just wouldn't open up. Some Red fruits and black pepper were there, but this was shut up shop even with me saving it in the glass hours later.
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2007 Guillaume Gilles Cornas 89 Points
France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Cornas
Nose: This is a nice and balanced nose with tones of black cherries, black pepper, olives, and some purple floral tones. This is very fragrant right now, but it is lacking some depth.
Taste: Full bodied with youthful chewy tannins and medium+ acidity. There is nice balance to the tones of black cherries, black pepper, olives, and some earth tones.
Overall: This is clearly on the young side. It can definitely use some more time, but is a very good cornas right now as well.
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2009 Domaine du Coulet (Matthieu Barret) Cornas Billes Noires 91 Points
France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Cornas
Nose: There is a real fragrance to the nose with tones of crushed rocks, dark red fruits, dark red cherries, licorice, and rawhide leather tones.
Taste: Full bodied with big and chewy tannins. The structure is showing it's youth, but there are real good tones of crushed rocks, dark red cherries, licorice, and rawhide leather.
Overall: This is obviously young. There is a lot to like and there is something really nice underneath the structure.
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