1983 Noël Verset Cornas

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 93.7 points

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  3/15/2024 - acyso wrote: flawed

  Heater week; 3/8/2024-3/17/2024 (Chicago, IL): Corked. A very compelling wine underneath the wet cardboard.

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  11/2/2021 - mye wrote:

  Initially quite heavy, with loads of iron, meat, and savory wildness. Dark plum and red fruit evident, but that wildness is a little dominating. Good balanced acidity, and overall tasty but gotta get over the animalistic vibe.

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  11/8/2018 - Kemo Sabe Likes this wine: 95 Points

  One of the best wines in an insane line up of Verset and Gentaz. Super elegant and refined. Highly perfumed. Really feminine yet loads of power and flavor. Garrigue, some lavender, violets, red fruits, darker fruits. Great texture. This wine was totally killing it tonight.

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  11/6/2018 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Unicorn Rhones (aka a taste-off btwn Verset and Gentaz with a few bonuses) (Momofuku Ko): Wow was this lovely. I think by far the best of the Versets. This just really stood out. Very lovely and elegant and has this haunting quality. There's also the lavender and stem and it almost felt like a woodcutters cabin in the forest with some earthy notes. Potpourri. Touch of drying tannin at the end. It just kept opening and getting better and better. Really beautiful wine.

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  5/11/2016 - rc@ughey Likes this wine: 96 Points

  This is reference-quality, head-spinning Cornas and one of the better wines I've had, period. This poured a beautiful translucent ruby from a pristine bottle, and I knew it was going to be sensational from moment one. The super-expressive nose shows the purest aromas of red berries, iron, and smoke with just a hint of its three decades of development. The palate is of the same character -- a suave, middleweight version of Syrah, but with bold fruit, cavernous depth, and emerging tertiary notes. The palate is still all about the pure fruit, although subtle savory/meaty notes, a noticeable mineral component, and dried herbs and fruits add complexity. Although the balance is impeccable, there are a few sharp edges -- some rusticity -- but that only adds to the experience. If there's a nit, it's that this could use a touch more mid-palate intensity, but that sort of hair-splitting is not terribly useful when the wine is this good. This wine remains very fresh, is in zero danger of fading, and may yet improve.

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