2004 Noël Verset Cornas

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 91.5 points

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  10/14/2023 - Chomsky wrote:

  From Neil, to pair with my 2010 Juge Cornas. Cellared since release and decanted for a few hours.
  
  Always such a treat to sit down with Verset. This had a broadly red-fruited, spicy, floral, and briny nose that gained depth and complexity with air. Essentially fully mature, the palate seamlessly blends savory dark fruit and meaty and briny essences. Just delightful. I agree with Neil that I have hit higher marks with other vintages of Verset but this was hugely pleasurable.

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  10/13/2023 - brooklynguy Likes this wine:

  Double decanted at 5:30, drank at maybe 7:30 or so. Served alongside a 2010 Marcel Juge, which provided for great contrast. This wine showed more elegant, which has been my experience with Verset in general - I know everyone loves to talk about the funk or something like that, and perhaps there can be an earthiness to the wines. But I find that they tend to be elegant and graceful, and this definitely was. It took a surprisingly long time to express its full self, only after another hour in the glass did it show best on the nose, when there was a real harmony of floral, brambly dark fruit, savory almost briny, and meaty aromas. This never showed the density and generosity aromatically or on the palate that the Juge showed, and that was a more polished wine (but not more elegant). Lovely stuff. Not among the best vintages I've had from Verset, but very fine wine.

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  3/10/2020 - Nicephoras wrote:

  This doesn’t quite feel like the master’s hand. A bit dilute with noticeable VA. While Verset can certainly be variable, it’s rarely variable in this kind of way.

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  1/1/2020 - beatles wrote: 92 Points

  Tasted over two days - and certainly better on Day 2. OItvhas the stony presence of a real Cornas-wine, but also the feel of the weak 2004-vintage - this is very far from the glorious 1999. Yet, it is clean cut, classical, firm, vertical and well structured, like Clape Verset could make wine also in the weaker years.
  #NewYearsEve#P&S

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  9/20/2015 - tooch wrote: 93 Points

  The fruit was high-toned with cherries, cranberries, and pomegranate. With some air the wine began to develop some rustic notes of olive, meat, and earth. The palate was light, and airy, with intense acidity. Drank over the course of 12 hours and this probably peaked around hour 4.

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