2012 La Grande Colline Cornas

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 91.5 points

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  3/2/2023 - jviz wrote:

  Tastes like a natty garage band red. There is nothing particularly noteworthy or interesting here. There is some syrah typicity but it’s more “natural” than “syrah”. It certainly does have some Brett and rubs its shoulders with mousiness without getting all the way in. I’m happy to have tried it but it’s an emperor without garments situation imo.

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  1/12/2023 - joshabramson Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Bright, with lots of energy. Drank side by side with 17’ Lafon Montrachet and I was more excited about this wine. So good!

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  10/11/2019 - Chomsky wrote:

  Keith's note nails it (duh), but I'd go further and say that this goes over way over the line and into the abyss. I can grok "natural wine," but this is so attenuated, shrill, and lacking in any semblance of fruit that there is little to recommend it. That and the gout-de-souris finish all but do it in. It's a shame because Ooka seems so earnest (if you haven't seen "Before It Begins" you really should), but the wine is just impossible.

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  6/24/2019 - Pierre-Yves wrote:

  Vinegary smoky tapenade. Light but not much length on the palate.

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  6/1/2019 - Keith Levenberg wrote:

  Tastes like a cross between Eric Texier Cote-Rotie and Verset Cornas if it were made by Dard & Ribo, which sounds kind of awesome on paper but to be honest I am on the fence trying to figure out if this is maybe just too far into the red zone on the tach for its own good. The non-fruit elements are so overwhelming - bacon, cured aged meat, sweaty horses that probably indicate a non-zero amount of brett, chicken stock, and wheaty grains - that I almost feel like this should be served with a knife and fork. Some compoted red fruit scents hit the nose eventually but on the palate the balance between sweet and savory has the savory needle in Spinal Tap territory. This isn't so much a wine you drink with dinner as it is dinner. It's either Soil-to-Glass Transfer Cornas or the sausage stall at the farm market + a bit of the compost pile at the farm run through the Dan Akroyd Bass-o-Matic, depending on which angle you look at it.

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