Community Tasting Notes 8

• KeithAkers wrote: 93 points

  January 5, 2024 - Wines drunk around London; 1/3/2024-1/7/2024 (London, UK): This was available by the bottle at Sager+Wilde. So, I had to jump on this with the quickness as this is my first time finally having a Bourg Cornas! And oh boy, what an introduction!! This is olive tapenade city right from the first whiff! There is so much depth and style, filling the glass with black cherries, black raspberries, violets, tobacco leaf, licorice, dark spices, black fruits, savory herbs, a touch of sanguine notes with an underlying briny quality that is driving me wild. The Full bodied feel is way more silky and deft than I would expect from a young Cornas with tart, medium+ acidity and chewy, medium+ tannins. This, this fucks. Like, it fucks really hard. This isn't just up my alley, it's my 10-lane highway. This will clearly improve with age and I'm not really here to say that it's "drinking" per se at the moment. What I am saying is, yea, this is some really good shit that I need to find a way to have more of in my life.

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• jondrinkswine Likes this wine:

  October 3, 2023 - Off memory. Really enjoyed this wine. On the meaty, black olive, darker fruited end of the spectrum with plenty of stuffing, but not heavy. I've heard comparisons to Allemand, which I thank may be overstated (though this was my first time drinking Bourg). This is much more open and approachable, even while young vs. Allemand which I have always found to be more tightly wound with lots of complexity but very little fruit.

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• ledocq Likes this wine:

  August 29, 2023 - I came too late for Noel Verset, I came too late for Allemand, I came too late for Gonon, but I just went out and bought all of this I could afford.

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• lozatron Likes this wine:

  July 21, 2023 - Hampshire N Rhone Feast (Chesil Rectory): Divide the table! Clearly a youngster that was trying to play with the big boys - a purple colour and a kind of black fruit and green tea character to it. Served warm and the palate exhibited a kind of pruniness - I think this is magic wine with a long life ahead of it, but other palates, more educated than mine, were less enthusiastic.

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• Eric wrote:

  May 21, 2023 - ESTG does Cornas and St. Joseph (Newcastle, WA): Mmmmm, dark, tarry, wonderful persistence, just a wonderful wine. Acid is very present, fantastic energy. Wild young Cornas!

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2019
• Type Red
• Producer Mickaël Bourg
• Varietal Syrah
• Designation Les P'tits Bouts
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Rhône
• SubRegion Northern Rhône
• Appellation Cornas

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• Pending Delivery 106 (18%)
• In Cellars 415 (70%)
• Consumed 72 (12%)

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