2017 Thierry Allemand Cornas Reynard

Community Tasting Notes (15) Avg Score: 96.3 points

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  12/4/2023 - Guillaume-en-égypte Likes this wine:

  Came across on the menu in a little bistro / restaurant in the 18th arrondissement - they have an allocation and the price was too good to resist. My first Allemand, and although my expectations were high and the wine was young - damn this was good ! Incredibly intense dark fruit, very dry, in the best possible way, and so long... I didn't take any notes, but paid plenty of attention over a couple of hours (in a decanter) with some very hearty French food. Up there with an improbably young & stupendously good Jamet Cote Rotie 2019 as my wine of the year. Undoubtedly this has much more to come, but it was already splendid & memorable.

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  6/23/2023 - SARED Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Decanted 4 hours and put back into the bottle. Quiet nose with some black pepper and florals on the nose. Perfectly balanced on the palate with dark fruit, precise acidity, and very present - but fine - tannin. Had this next to the 2006, and this struck me as cut from the same exact cloth...just more youthful... maybe blacker fruit than the 2006, but perhaps that will change with another decade of age. Scored on where I think this wine will be in a decade (same as the 2006).

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  3/5/2023 - Vas19 wrote: 94 Points

  My 5th different Reynard vintage and I’m starting to understand the appeal of these wines. I guess my formative experiences with cornas/northern rhone syrah had a different flavor profile (olive, game) that I don’t really get from Allemand Reynard. These are singular, and I guess that’s what makes them special. There is great purity and elegance and amazing lightness and energy for a young wine from a warm vintage. Still not completely convinced that this is better than a good jamet or gonon but I am enjoying this quite a bit.

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  9/23/2022 - MAXIMUM SATISFACTION wrote: 98 Points

  We drank this alongside a 2017 Clape and while not as intense or dense it’s complex weightlessness blew the Clape away. Dark berry, plum, lavender, mineral, damp soil, violets, cassis and iodine. Unlike the Clape the acid and tannins rip here. Drinkable now but this is for the long haul. Outstanding as always.

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  9/16/2022 - etyc Likes this wine:

  "Beat the '13 Soldera theme'd session". Popped and decanted (blinded) for ~3-hrs before serving. Dark, inky purple, this still appeared reticent despite the decanting. There was some faint scents of violets, pepper, meat and smoke that appeared to shift in/out (appear/disappear). A big (fruited) wine as the color suggested, this wasn't exactly closed nor shut down, just not as giving/showy as I had hoped for. Gobs of plush black, purple fruit on the palate. The concentration/intensity was really quite amazing/incredible, and well balanced with acidity too. Most guessed this as a GC Burg... This had all the stuffing and material to make a great great wine (some day), but just not showy today (due to its youth most probably)

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