2011 Alain Voge Cornas Les Vieilles Vignes

Community Tasting Notes (88) Avg Score: 92.2 points

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  2/19/2024 - jonnysandwich Likes this wine: 93 Points

  A splendid wine at this age. Loads of fruit, mostly of the dried and overripe "dark" stone variety, but nothing too jammy. It smarts of spice and herb--black pepper, some baking spices, bay leaf, maybe even cardamom? Beautiful wrinkly black olive on the finish, along with oil/animal fat and something slightly bitter and mineral-y...graphite? GUNPOWDER?
  
  Some other reviewers want to age this another 5 years--but this is already plenty tart for my taste, and the sediment is building up voluminously. Pushing it further may balance the tracks, but I like the combination of heavy bass and loud, syrup-y vocals (so to speak) that this shows now.

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  1/28/2024 - PT insurgent wrote:

  Was honestly expecting a bit more from this bottle. Good notes of black fruits, pepper, and earth, but I felt it was lacking depth and length.

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  1/26/2024 - ylkim30 Likes this wine:

  January 2024 Northern Rhone Dinner: This showed really well and it struck a nice median between the bright, red-fruited ‘11 Cordeloux and the massive ‘94 LaLas. A touch darker than the Cordeloux, with a bit more meaty smokiness, but open for business and a pleasure to drink.

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  12/17/2023 - Carrydonkey wrote: flawed

  Brett city.

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  12/14/2023 - SLOFred Likes this wine: 91 Points

  A bit closed in when first opened. Very shallow, but then about 1 hour later really opened up and was quite nice. Definitely decant 1 hour before dipping in.

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