Very pleasurable, and elegant; more red fruited vs black and had that trademark screechy acidity. Good development here with some cherries, smoky tapenade, barnyard and earth. Obviously doesn’t hail from a blockbuster year but still nice to have tasted it. Legs to go further but I wouldn’t bother.
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Jason's birthday: A bit closed on the nose but better on the palate. Clearly a cooler year and less ripe than most of the wines preceding. Complex even if not super aromatic.
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Jason's birthday: The savoury, smoky bell pepper notes made it obvious that this was another northern Rhone, guessed cool vintage Jamet or Allemand like '04. Pleasant and resolved, but lacked the oomph to be a top wine.
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The same wild bramble/spice nose as the younger versions of this wine on the table tonight, there is definitely a kinship to the wines from this place and this winemaker's hand. Palate is on the somewhat lighter side, lovely still, leaning more cherry than dark berry notes, resolving fairly well at this middle age. Lovely wine, though maybe a step behind the others tonight.
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Allemand vs Chave (Kitchen Istanbul): A little musty and slightly muted on the nose with some cherry and forest notes and a hint of flowers. Similar notes on the palate and medium finish. Not a bad wine, but this was underwhelming compared to the rest. Fell a bit short of expectations, hopefully this was just an off bottle.
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Tasted blind. This was smuggled as a pirate into a Burgundy line up. Great nose here, dried beef, smoke, whole cluster, earthy, spice box. Fresh on the palate, may be a bit too acidic for the fruit but still within acceptable range. Great aged Northern Rhone, great food wine.
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Perfectly mature with aromas of leather, baked earth, black olives and menthol. It is very savoury, with a vinous core. There are meaty flavours and it is mid-weight and nicely balanced and proportioned. There are some cooler green bean and wild herb notes that work well with the wine's briary fruits. Delicious.
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Niche Niche 8/20: It's Reynard, so it's good, but this is not a great bottle. Solid fruit, but the bottle is a bit dilute and the tannins are a bit rustic. This lacks the finesse you expect from Allemand in what was a generally tough vintage for the Northern Rhone.
CRiBS @ La T (La Trompette, London): Brighter, more cherry red in colour. Punchy raspberry fruit. Mid weight. Good acidity and typicity. Nicely complex. Grows in the glass for an hour or so before becoming shriller and less expressive after a couple of hours with the acidity dominating. More complete and a little more multidimensional than the Geynale alongside. ****
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A farewell to Tooch (Chicago, IL): Muddy. Likely heat-damaged. A shame, as it would have been really educational to compare a mature Reynard and Chaillot side by side.
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It has taken a long time but now this wine is mature and in my view drinking at peak. Elegant with a certain coolness of the subtle Northern Rhone smoky, olive and meaty flavours. Although very nice, the wine lacks some in complexity.
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Finally an Allemand I can enjoy. The younger versions were just too dark and primary for my tastes.
However this bottle had a wonderful acidity that supported the classic bacon, tobacco and smoke components. This was the perfect paring with the smoked bbq ribs. The fruit was sour cherry in profile and there was also a quality reminiscent of menthol or Heitz eucalyptus but something altogether different. A very complex and enjoyable drink that convinced me to hold onto the rest of my Allemand.
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Complex nose of red fruit, black olive, pepper and ethanol. Acid driven, really goes close to the edge with its stem use - its black olive and minerality are extremely pronounced and almost green. Medium bodied, refined and delicate tannins. Considerable energy and tension in this wine, stern.
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Cellared since original release. Fresh and youthful with precise expression of red fruits and a little smoke. Medium-weight. Tannins resolved. No rush to drink this wine.
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Markus birthday (Markus Home): Nose: More on the black fruit side with aromas of blackberry, black currant and elderberry mixed with floral notes, black tea and a slightly pepper componant. Nearly no secondary aromas like black olive or meat which I often get in older, classic Cornas. Palate: Appeals so super young like the bottle I´ve had at the end of june last year. Great acidic backbone, power and tension in abundance although very elegant & velvety. So much potential left here, would love to get a really matured bottle from this producer.
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Finally a cornas I enjoyed. Needs a peppery dish(we had sausages) in autumn to really show. It is everything you have read, it's a wine from pre war in style but the fruit is coming through. No idea how much longer it has got to go!
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Vinocamp Best Bottle Party 2014 (Uni Geisenheim): Colour: Dark red, you can see that the wine was bottled unfiltrated. Nose: Black sour-cherry, black raspberry, olive, a bit of red pepper and a bit of stony underbrush but the fruit is dominating in a very harmonise way. Still a young nose. Palate: Super lush but also very polished and elegant. Perfect combination between fruit & acid. Tension, power, structure. No doubt, this wine have everything to be a great wine. And still so super, super young after 14 years, which blows my mind.
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France 2013 - Paris (Paris): Great Northern Rhone nose with black olive tapenade, bell pepper and savory aromas. Nice acidity with fine and gritty tannins. This reminds me of a slightly more polished version of Clape. Drinking very well but should peak in about 5 years and coast for another 5+ after that. Excellent. 91+
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Dark red. Blackberries and forest floor on the nose. Very expressive at the moment, with loads of fruit. But also extremely structured and concentrated. High acidity. Superelegant, almost like a top Côte Rôtie.
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Ruby red through and through. An initial impression straight from the bottle was dominated by green olive. The bottle remained open for four hours and during that time all sorts of things changed, then went back to the way they were, then changed again. Sometimes I thought I smelled wood (was this the year an influx of new barrels arrived?). Tasting from barrel I remember being puzzled by the various lots--but I'm often confused, by young Allemand in particular. No such problem now. Over the course of the evening it was never less than terrific, but 2000 presented issues that were evident here in the form of less depth and complexity than in many other vintages of 'Reynard.' Tannins seem largely resolved. I'd guess this has reached a plateau and while it won't deteriorate any time soon, might not improve much more. Try another one in 12-18 months. Lots of memories were wrapped up in this bottle, too.
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Deep but correct colour. Young, very tight and immature bouquet of black fruit and sealing wax. A touch of spice. Very dense palate with good fruit, but a very firmly acidic and tight finely tannic finish. Very young still and with a fair amount of time still needed for this to flesh out a little. For lovers of structure only at this stage.
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Closed really tight. Slight curing salts nose and some earthy notes. Just blocked on my palate. Maybe some black raspberry, leather and salts, but I am stretching to get anything from this black mass - well formed and stacked with potential to be sure.
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5/1/2024 - wineton.mee wrote: 92 Points
Very pleasurable, and elegant; more red fruited vs black and had that trademark screechy acidity. Good development here with some cherries, smoky tapenade, barnyard and earth. Obviously doesn’t hail from a blockbuster year but still nice to have tasted it. Legs to go further but I wouldn’t bother.
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4/27/2024 - pclin wrote: 91 Points
Double-blind. Just an okay wine, probably under-delivered for the reputation and price.
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4/26/2024 - pavel_p Likes this wine: 92 Points
Jason's birthday: A bit closed on the nose but better on the palate. Clearly a cooler year and less ripe than most of the wines preceding. Complex even if not super aromatic.
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4/26/2024 - melvinyeowq wrote: 91 Points
Jason's birthday: The savoury, smoky bell pepper notes made it obvious that this was another northern Rhone, guessed cool vintage Jamet or Allemand like '04. Pleasant and resolved, but lacked the oomph to be a top wine.
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9/30/2023 - alanr wrote: 91 Points
The same wild bramble/spice nose as the younger versions of this wine on the table tonight, there is definitely a kinship to the wines from this place and this winemaker's hand. Palate is on the somewhat lighter side, lovely still, leaning more cherry than dark berry notes, resolving fairly well at this middle age. Lovely wine, though maybe a step behind the others tonight.
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9/29/2023 - glou.sf wrote:
Allemand vs Chave (Kitchen Istanbul): A little musty and slightly muted on the nose with some cherry and forest notes and a hint of flowers. Similar notes on the palate and medium finish. Not a bad wine, but this was underwhelming compared to the rest. Fell a bit short of expectations, hopefully this was just an off bottle.
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9/29/2023 - aagrawal wrote: flawed
Chave vs. Allemand (Kitchen Istanbul, SF): Funky nose, more muted with air. Unclear whether this is correct vs closed.
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12/22/2022 - astroman Likes this wine: 94 Points
Serious Cornas Tasting: Blinded. Capsicum, some pepper, lovely mouthfeel.
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3/14/2022 - Collector1855 wrote: 94 Points
Tasted blind. This was smuggled as a pirate into a Burgundy line up. Great nose here, dried beef, smoke, whole cluster, earthy, spice box. Fresh on the palate, may be a bit too acidic for the fruit but still within acceptable range. Great aged Northern Rhone, great food wine.
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11/6/2021 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Perfectly mature with aromas of leather, baked earth, black olives and menthol. It is very savoury, with a vinous core. There are meaty flavours and it is mid-weight and nicely balanced and proportioned. There are some cooler green bean and wild herb notes that work well with the wine's briary fruits. Delicious.
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8/20/2020 - Nicephoras wrote:
Niche Niche 8/20: It's Reynard, so it's good, but this is not a great bottle. Solid fruit, but the bottle is a bit dilute and the tannins are a bit rustic. This lacks the finesse you expect from Allemand in what was a generally tough vintage for the Northern Rhone.
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12/6/2019 - SimonG wrote: 92 Points
CRiBS @ La T (La Trompette, London): Brighter, more cherry red in colour. Punchy raspberry fruit. Mid weight. Good acidity and typicity. Nicely complex. Grows in the glass for an hour or so before becoming shriller and less expressive after a couple of hours with the acidity dominating. More complete and a little more multidimensional than the Geynale alongside. ****
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3/1/2019 - Nanda wrote: flawed
Tooch Going Away Dinner (TDS): Bottle seemed heat damaged. Low-ish fill.
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3/1/2019 - acyso wrote: flawed
A farewell to Tooch (Chicago, IL): Muddy. Likely heat-damaged. A shame, as it would have been really educational to compare a mature Reynard and Chaillot side by side.
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9/30/2018 - larsth wrote: 92 Points
It has taken a long time but now this wine is mature and in my view drinking at peak. Elegant with a certain coolness of the subtle Northern Rhone smoky, olive and meaty flavours. Although very nice, the wine lacks some in complexity.
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7/14/2018 - FYC wrote:
Finally an Allemand I can enjoy. The younger versions were just too dark and primary for my tastes.
However this bottle had a wonderful acidity that supported the classic bacon, tobacco and smoke components. This was the perfect paring with the smoked bbq ribs. The fruit was sour cherry in profile and there was also a quality reminiscent of menthol or Heitz eucalyptus but something altogether different. A very complex and enjoyable drink that convinced me to hold onto the rest of my Allemand.
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10/13/2017 - lightning wrote: 89 Points
Complex nose of red fruit, black olive, pepper and ethanol. Acid driven, really goes close to the edge with its stem use - its black olive and minerality are extremely pronounced and almost green. Medium bodied, refined and delicate tannins. Considerable energy and tension in this wine, stern.
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1/15/2017 - Axone wrote: 94 Points
Excellent vin, très pur.
Très joli nez et bouche à l'avenant.
Peut attendre encore sans souci mais déjà très beau aujourd'hui.
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6/27/2015 - cfk49 wrote: 94 Points
Cellared since original release. Fresh and youthful with precise expression of red fruits and a little smoke. Medium-weight. Tannins resolved. No rush to drink this wine.
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1/3/2015 - Oh Dae-su wrote: 93 Points
Still awfully juvenile. Better hold another four years or so.
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1/3/2015 - m_arcon Likes this wine: 94 Points
Markus birthday (Markus Home): Nose: More on the black fruit side with aromas of blackberry, black currant and elderberry mixed with floral notes, black tea and a slightly pepper componant. Nearly no secondary aromas like black olive or meat which I often get in older, classic Cornas.
Palate: Appeals so super young like the bottle I´ve had at the end of june last year. Great acidic backbone, power and tension in abundance although very elegant & velvety. So much potential left here, would love to get a really matured bottle from this producer.
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11/30/2014 - Sonoffalstaff wrote: 90 Points
Finally a cornas I enjoyed. Needs a peppery dish(we had sausages) in autumn to really show. It is everything you have read, it's a wine from pre war in style but the fruit is coming through. No idea how much longer it has got to go!
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6/28/2014 - m_arcon Likes this wine: 94 Points
Vinocamp Best Bottle Party 2014 (Uni Geisenheim): Colour: Dark red, you can see that the wine was bottled unfiltrated.
Nose: Black sour-cherry, black raspberry, olive, a bit of red pepper and a bit of stony underbrush but the fruit is dominating in a very harmonise way. Still a young nose.
Palate: Super lush but also very polished and elegant. Perfect combination between fruit & acid. Tension, power, structure. No doubt, this wine have everything to be a great wine. And still so super, super young after 14 years, which blows my mind.
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4/27/2013 - godx wrote: 91 Points
France 2013 - Paris (Paris): Great Northern Rhone nose with black olive tapenade, bell pepper and savory aromas. Nice acidity with fine and gritty tannins. This reminds me of a slightly more polished version of Clape. Drinking very well but should peak in about 5 years and coast for another 5+ after that. Excellent. 91+
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4/26/2013 - eusor wrote: 90 Points
Bien, mais encore un peu rough.
Odeur: Dimetap au raison, odeur chimique légère. Olive noir, épices, odeur typique de la Sirah. Fugace olive noir.
Gout: Olive noir, assez rought en bouche, fruit/confiture. Fugace de chez guillaume.
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2/11/2013 - Eubulos Likes this wine: 93 Points
Much more approachable than the 1999, but still youthful. Wonderful pure fruit with a good acidic backbone.
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12/1/2012 - AudunG wrote: 95 Points
Dark red. Blackberries and forest floor on the nose. Very expressive at the moment, with loads of fruit. But also extremely structured and concentrated. High acidity. Superelegant, almost like a top Côte Rôtie.
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11/24/2012 - lozatron Likes this wine: 90 Points
Lovely stuff - decanted but still drunk rather too quickly. Seemingly a little more aristocratic than the Chaillots, still crunchy and acidic.
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10/9/2011 - slanum wrote:
Ruby red through and through. An initial impression straight from the bottle was dominated by green olive. The bottle remained open for four hours and during that time all sorts of things changed, then went back to the way they were, then changed again. Sometimes I thought I smelled wood (was this the year an influx of new barrels arrived?). Tasting from barrel I remember being puzzled by the various lots--but I'm often confused, by young Allemand in particular. No such problem now. Over the course of the evening it was never less than terrific, but 2000 presented issues that were evident here in the form of less depth and complexity than in many other vintages of 'Reynard.' Tannins seem largely resolved. I'd guess this has reached a plateau and while it won't deteriorate any time soon, might not improve much more. Try another one in 12-18 months. Lots of memories were wrapped up in this bottle, too.
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4/22/2010 - TBAFB wrote: 91 Points
Deep but correct colour. Young, very tight and immature bouquet of black fruit and sealing wax. A touch of spice. Very dense palate with good fruit, but a very firmly acidic and tight finely tannic finish. Very young still and with a fair amount of time still needed for this to flesh out a little. For lovers of structure only at this stage.
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3/30/2007 - AndrewSGHall wrote:
Closed really tight. Slight curing salts nose and some earthy notes. Just blocked on my palate. Maybe some black raspberry, leather and salts, but I am stretching to get anything from this black mass - well formed and stacked with potential to be sure.
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