2017 Julien Cecillon Cornas Saint Pierre

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 95 points

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  11/26/2023 - talbot61 wrote:

  Insanely dark purple. Lots of sediment. This was flamboyantly fragrant when I decanted it, but two hours later it was all acidity, and very hard to get a handle on. There's a lot of allspice and blackberry lurking behind the acidity, and I don't doubt that this will be excellent with time, but it wasn't offering us much pleasure in the moment.

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  10/10/2020 - Chomsky wrote:

  This is very fine Cornas. Big floral and stony nose with lurking deep blue-black fruit with a salty/briny edge, very aromatic. With air and some swirling the palate follows the nose, with semi-juicy fruit and a superb savory fade that ends on an emphatic mineral note. Just a light sense of new oak - the wine sees a bit of new oak. It wasn't cheap at $75 but it drinks as well as other Cornas at that price level (like Gilles or Balthazar). I am impressed and will look for more for the cellar.

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  10/9/2020 - Seth Rosenberg Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Tasted double blind from 4oz bottle from Zak. Big N Rhone nose - very perfumed and primary - lots of violets and blue fruits: blueberry and juicy, really vibrant with the saline mineralogy behind - stones. Some sweetness - is that a bit of new oak? This feels like a nose from old vines Syrah with a squirt of Viognier. There is a bright focused aspect to the fruit that reminds me of small berried Syrah like Vielle Serine. I lean towards Cote Rotie or Cornas - (of course I know Z’s predilections). The palate is even better- very much like the nose - blue fruits, violets and stones. Great palate presence - really perfumed and flavored and gripping. There is an old vines seve here. As you hit the end palate this wine turbocharges as the minerality stretches and explode in a linear fashion into the finish - the blue fruits hang in and the sweet (oak?) combine really well. Long and persistent and delicious. Nose - 5-5.5/6, Palate - 5.5+/6, Finish - 5.5+/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1.5/2 = 17.5-18/20 (with 18-19/20 potential.).
  
  So I guess France and Syrah and N rhone - probably Cote Rotie more than Cornas but I know more about Cote Rotie as well. It has that aromatic and floral nose that as I said could have a bit of Viognier in it- If it is a producer I know I would guess Levet or Benetiere, maybe Journieres if Levet since it doesn’t quite have the sauvage of the Cavaroche. Recent vintage I think since it is primary - last 3-4 years I would think, maybe last 2 years. So 17 Levet Journieres is my guess. At least I got the year and region right, and Cornas would have been my next guess.
  
  Day 2: still very perfumed. The fruit on this is great but not heavy at all. Lots of florals and wonderful savory and mineral aspects too. Oak is showing a little more now. Similar on palate - oak showing a little more now as well and through to the finish. This has lots of flavor, great acid and lots of grip. The oak is poking through a bit now but this clearly has the material to absorb and integrate it. Great stuff. Thanks Zak!

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