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Red
1998 Jean-Luc Colombo Cornas La Louvée
Syrah
- France
- Rhône
- Northern Rhône
- Cornas
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Community Tasting Notes 2
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beatles wrote: 93 points
May 23, 2019 - This is the right stuff, and it has all the fixers, iron, blood, stone galore, real Cornas-wine here, time has done this good, and it is no longer polished but a real terroir wine. Drink og hold - but very good now.
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grafstrb wrote: 93 points
June 15, 2012 - -- popped and poured --
-- tasted non-blind over 2 days; TN is (for the most part) from Day 1 --
NOSE: expressive mélange of intense plum and purple berries, as well as leather; hints of raspberry jam and habanero/scotch bonnet pepper hot sauce; moderately horsey.
BODY: violet-tinged garnet color with a hint of ageing at the eges; color is of medium-deep depth. Medium-full bodied.
TASTE: medium-coarse tannins are quite grippy; decent-to-good acidity; strong mineral aspect, along with strong notes of horsey leather; fruit flavors are in the purple end of the spectrum, and are ripe without being roasted, over-extracted, or over-concentrated; the finish is long and of medium+ intensity; alcohol is not noticeable; this wine is at a nice primary/tertiary midpoint of its evolution; very nice.
Overall, this was not as good on Day 2 as it was on Day 1: simply put, it came across as a “flatter” wine on Day 2 than it did on Day 1. My score is representative of its Day 1 showing.
B: 50, 5, 13, 17, 8 = 93
Wine Definition
- Vintage 1998
- Type Red
- Producer Jean-Luc Colombo
- Varietal Syrah
- Designation La Louvée
- Vineyard n/a
- Country France
- Region Rhône
- SubRegion Northern Rhône
- Appellation Cornas
- UPC Code 087236657079
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 0 (0%)
- In Cellars 22 (31%)
- Consumed 48 (69%)
Food Pairing
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- ProducerJean-Luc Colombo
- VarietySyrah
- CountryFrance
- RegionRhône
- SubRegionNorthern Rhône
- AppellationCornas
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