With 2hours decanting this wine is excellent. Still much life in this, from a strong vintage, it exudes heady rhone Syrah with delightful mulberry/bramble notes. A long finish ensures this is good with red meats(in my case beef stroganoff). It needs the decant, the other bottle I have I’ll look at in two years.
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Dark ruby to cherry red. Smooth dark fruit and a touch of pepper, opening up to a dark red-fruited profile reminiscent of raspberries. Smooth and fully resolved, dense fruit and a very clean and precise palate that still says northern Rhône Syrah rather than Cornas. ****
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Deep, dense ruby. Lovely pepper and raspberry nose. Quite dense and meaty. Velvety smooth. Very proper northern rhone Syrah, though not much to say Cornas. Long. Finishes very positively. ****
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This has improved a lot since my last bottle in 2010. There is still a tart note on the finish but it has softened considerably. It's nicely rustic, bloody and meaty though not as feral as the 2007. Red fruited, medium body. Will probably improve further and hopefully become more rounded.
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Decanted for three hours. Lots of sediment. The decanter smelled for olive tapenade. The smell was not present in the glas. We found sour cherry on nose and palate and, wow, very sour. The finish was a bit short. We left half of the bottle for the next day. On day two we liked it better. The olive tapenade was now also in the glass and the palate had blood and iron as we like it in our Northern Rhone reds. Maybe the wine still needs more time.
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Decanted for five hours. This is throwing some serious amount of sedimentary sludge. Dark ruby core but with noticeable maturing hues at the edge of the glass. Nose is uniquely Cornas; some animal, game and meat tones before displaying some sort of thyme and bracken thing. Certainly an interesting bouquet if not massive in intensity. In the mouth a brisk attack and some chewy tannins still present, though this is perhaps softer than I expected it to be. A good mix of earthy flavours with wild blackberry and black olive edges before the finish which shows a dash of black pepper and graphite minerality. Good, characterful stuff.
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Perfectly mature, with lots of minerals, iron, blood, horse sadle and dried meats. Classic! The 2005 Granit 60 is even better, but is still in need of time. Drink this while waiting.
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Dark red with violet rim. Rough nose of blackberry and cherries. Sauvory fruit on the palate. Great balance and concentration. Good lenght. Still some tannins. Good now with elk-meat but could still be saved some years.
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Gorgeous wine. Still very young, but beautifully pure and fresh. Savoury nose filled with earth, blood, iron and stone. The acidity although somewhat tart and unresolved, I find to be quite enjoyable. The wine is slowly coming alive, enjoyable more so a year ago, though I would now start to cast my eyes away from these and think about something else. This well made wine deserves a little time to blossom.
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Perfect with roast pork on NYE. Decanted for about an hour, then back into bottle and savored over a couple of hours. Really well knit, and all of that lovely mineral lift that I crave from Cornas. More black cherry notes upfront, melting to sour cherry in mid-palate, and with chewy tannins (not harsh to me as to a few others). I will try to hold the last bottle for another year or two, but doubt it will last.
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Opened this after reading that the winemaker thought it was ready after 5 years. This was one of the most 'savoury' styled wines I've had in some time. Quite a firm and stern wine. Obviously northern Rhone syrah and while not unripe or 'green' it is a touch harsh and unforgiving to my palate at the moment. I'll leave the other few bottles for another five years I think. I wouldn't write this off but it's not doing it for me at the moment.
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What Otto said. Very pure, very acidic and mineral, quite intense, with a soft, chewy tannic finish. Nothing of the traditional Cornas rusticity here. The fruit is very fresh and primary - I would love to know what it will be like in 10 years time, but I am not sure the case will survive. dg-
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Possibly still too young ? Quite acidic on the throat. Good fruit. No match for the Chapoutier Les Arenes. Didn't live up to Decanter tasting note and 4* rating.
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12/2/2023 - JPT5 Likes this wine: 89 Points
With 2hours decanting this wine is excellent. Still much life in this, from a strong vintage, it exudes heady rhone Syrah with delightful mulberry/bramble notes. A long finish ensures this is good with red meats(in my case beef stroganoff). It needs the decant, the other bottle I have I’ll look at in two years.
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9/9/2019 - SimonG wrote: 91 Points
Dark ruby to cherry red. Smooth dark fruit and a touch of pepper, opening up to a dark red-fruited profile reminiscent of raspberries. Smooth and fully resolved, dense fruit and a very clean and precise palate that still says northern Rhône Syrah rather than Cornas. ****
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8/6/2018 - Zweder wrote: 90 Points
Weekly tasting group RWP #297: Three interesting flights (@ My place): In the bouquet some beautiful barnyard and red fruits. On the palate red berries, leather, cheese, good acidity and tannin and showing some development. Beautiful and true to type wine.
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2/3/2018 - SimonG wrote: 91 Points
Deep, dense ruby. Lovely pepper and raspberry nose. Quite dense and meaty. Velvety smooth. Very proper northern rhone Syrah, though not much to say Cornas. Long. Finishes very positively. ****
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8/31/2017 - rayq wrote: 90 Points
This has improved a lot since my last bottle in 2010. There is still a tart note on the finish but it has softened considerably. It's nicely rustic, bloody and meaty though not as feral as the 2007. Red fruited, medium body. Will probably improve further and hopefully become more rounded.
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8/11/2017 - win_fried wrote: 89 Points
This has finally come around. Acid integrated. Amarena cherry, cedar box and eucalyptus.
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5/8/2017 - sergio65 Does not like this wine: 78 Points
Astringent and light, no fruit. Avoid.
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2/22/2015 - win_fried wrote: 88 Points
Decanted for three hours. Lots of sediment. The decanter smelled for olive tapenade. The smell was not present in the glas. We found sour cherry on nose and palate and, wow, very sour. The finish was a bit short. We left half of the bottle for the next day. On day two we liked it better. The olive tapenade was now also in the glass and the palate had blood and iron as we like it in our Northern Rhone reds. Maybe the wine still needs more time.
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1/1/2015 - VinoVeloVinyl Likes this wine: 90 Points
Decanted for five hours. This is throwing some serious amount of sedimentary sludge.
Dark ruby core but with noticeable maturing hues at the edge of the glass.
Nose is uniquely Cornas; some animal, game and meat tones before displaying some sort of thyme and bracken thing. Certainly an interesting bouquet if not massive in intensity.
In the mouth a brisk attack and some chewy tannins still present, though this is perhaps softer than I expected it to be. A good mix of earthy flavours with wild blackberry and black olive edges before the finish which shows a dash of black pepper and graphite minerality. Good, characterful stuff.
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12/31/2012 - abbulf wrote:
Perfectly mature, with lots of minerals, iron, blood, horse sadle and dried meats. Classic! The 2005 Granit 60 is even better, but is still in need of time. Drink this while waiting.
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11/11/2012 - vassnesen wrote: 89 Points
Dark red with violet rim.
Rough nose of blackberry and cherries. Sauvory fruit on the palate. Great balance and concentration. Good lenght. Still some tannins. Good now with elk-meat but could still be saved some years.
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6/23/2011 - ChateauTooting wrote:
Gorgeous wine. Still very young, but beautifully pure and fresh. Savoury nose filled with earth, blood, iron and stone. The acidity although somewhat tart and unresolved, I find to be quite enjoyable. The wine is slowly coming alive, enjoyable more so a year ago, though I would now start to cast my eyes away from these and think about something else. This well made wine deserves a little time to blossom.
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6/7/2011 - pshabe wrote: 80 Points
Too acidic formytastes.
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4/16/2011 - sfowine wrote:
Couldn't wait... Still yummy! Wish there was more of it, but this was it.
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12/31/2010 - sfowine wrote:
Perfect with roast pork on NYE. Decanted for about an hour, then back into bottle and savored over a couple of hours. Really well knit, and all of that lovely mineral lift that I crave from Cornas. More black cherry notes upfront, melting to sour cherry in mid-palate, and with chewy tannins (not harsh to me as to a few others). I will try to hold the last bottle for another year or two, but doubt it will last.
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11/7/2010 - rayq wrote:
Opened this after reading that the winemaker thought it was ready after 5 years.
This was one of the most 'savoury' styled wines I've had in some time.
Quite a firm and stern wine. Obviously northern Rhone syrah and while not unripe or 'green' it is a touch harsh and unforgiving to my palate at the moment. I'll leave the other few bottles for another five years I think.
I wouldn't write this off but it's not doing it for me at the moment.
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8/6/2010 - Jeff W wrote:
What Otto said. Very pure, very acidic and mineral, quite intense, with a soft, chewy tannic finish. Nothing of the traditional Cornas rusticity here. The fruit is very fresh and primary - I would love to know what it will be like in 10 years time, but I am not sure the case will survive. dg-
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7/5/2010 - rikipedia Likes this wine: 85 Points
Terroir-istes International - France, Rhone, Cornas (Rodwell House): Old vines, Fairly intense notes of dark fruits with some crushed stone and mineral qualities. Still quite subdued. [I seem to have lost the rest of my note, except to give it 85 points]
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1/15/2009 - mrfroopy wrote: 91 Points
A wonderful, earthy and balanced Cornas, needs 3 more years for full yumminess to start coming around..
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12/29/2007 - Fat cat wrote: 79 Points
Possibly still too young ? Quite acidic on the throat. Good fruit. No match for the Chapoutier Les Arenes. Didn't live up to Decanter tasting note and 4* rating.
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4/11/2007 - SimonG wrote:
Uncorked Rhone Tasting (Uncorked, Exchange Arcade, London): Nice nose. Good fruit. Some structure but approachable. Juicy almost. 4
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