2000 Xavier Vignon Cornas

Community Tasting Note

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93 Points

Saturday, November 25, 2023 - new and aged Rhones: somewhere between garnet and ruby colour and medium body. cassis and blackberry aromas are laced with fresh red cherry, potpourri, leather and smoke. deceptively simple on an entry of fruit, herbs and liquorice that seem medicinal, it broadens enigmatically to primary and tertiary notes, to bright and opaque flavours, to citric and mineral accents. well-resolved tannins carry thru to good persistence.

developed but not fully matured, this will probably open up nicely in a year or two and go on for another decade or more. it strips away some muscularity of Cornas to display some of its essential aspects.

13.5% AbV; 100% Syrah; matured for twenty-two years in neutral vessels; bottled in 2022.

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