2016 Domaine Auguste Clape Cornas Renaissance

Community Tasting Notes (22) Avg Score: 92.5 points

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  4/3/2024 - North Willis Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Bottle purchased from Gordon's. Drank over two days. PnP. Opened up quite precociously. Great nose of meat, spices, dirt, coffee/chocolate, and wild, dark fruits. Mouth echoes nose with the addition of slight smoke notes. Very satisfying.
  Day 2: Little evolution, other than tannins softened a bit, although medium on PnP. This is drinking beautifully and will for another 10+ years.

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  3/31/2024 - ocassiuso Likes this wine:

  Bottle 1310g. Moderately intense aromas on opening of dark fruit and loam, white pepper, smoke, floral top note. Dry, with moderate acidity and moderate grainy tannins, full-bodied, 13.5% abv. Wants air, and reveals itself slowly. Increasingly spicy on the palate. Then firewood on the nose. The palate gets brighter. This could take a while.... Purchased in Lyon, October '22. Throwing some silty sediment.
  Tobacco, herbal aromas, meringue, graphite. Meatier. Fruit is sort of the scenery at the back of the stage that all the other aromas and flavors are dancing in front of.
  Much later: the wine has relaxed, and all the lush, savory, meaty flavors have invited the dark cherry fruit to take a bow with them. A sensuous performance.

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  1/14/2024 - markydecker Likes this wine: 94 Points

  My last bottle, sadly. Holding in extremely well. Slightest of bricking, secondary flavors just emerging. Perfect for a 15 degree winter evening with meatloaf and mashed potatoes. Solid 94.

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  11/17/2023 - weezie Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Very nice, well balanced with classic (albeit somewhat subtle) northern Rhone character. In many ways this was light and super relative to expectations but that is not to say it was lacking in structure. Was good to go straight from the decanter, but it opened and grew a bit more expressive after 45+ minutes of air. Had I purchased this retail I'd say it was a pretty good QPR.

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  11/4/2023 - soyhead wrote:

  Velvety and sleek, this is a charming dark fruited wine that has lots of complexity, as well as excellent verve. I’m a big fan of this wine’s juicy generosity which grows on me with each sip.

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