1998 Jean-Luc Colombo Cornas La Louvée

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 92 points

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  5/23/2019 - beatles wrote: 93 Points

  This is the right stuff, and it has all the fixers, iron, blood, stone galore, real Cornas-wine here, time has done this good, and it is no longer polished but a real terroir wine. Drink og hold - but very good now.
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  6/15/2012 - grafstrb wrote: 93 Points

  -- popped and poured --
  -- tasted non-blind over 2 days; TN is (for the most part) from Day 1 --
  
  NOSE: expressive mélange of intense plum and purple berries, as well as leather; hints of raspberry jam and habanero/scotch bonnet pepper hot sauce; moderately horsey.
  
  BODY: violet-tinged garnet color with a hint of ageing at the eges; color is of medium-deep depth. Medium-full bodied.
  
  TASTE: medium-coarse tannins are quite grippy; decent-to-good acidity; strong mineral aspect, along with strong notes of horsey leather; fruit flavors are in the purple end of the spectrum, and are ripe without being roasted, over-extracted, or over-concentrated; the finish is long and of medium+ intensity; alcohol is not noticeable; this wine is at a nice primary/tertiary midpoint of its evolution; very nice.
  
  Overall, this was not as good on Day 2 as it was on Day 1: simply put, it came across as a “flatter” wine on Day 2 than it did on Day 1. My score is representative of its Day 1 showing.
  
  B: 50, 5, 13, 17, 8 = 93

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