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MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
January 17, 2023 - Commanderie des Costes du Rhone - Spring 2023 Kick-off (Gabriel Kruether): Bought this a few years ago sadly not for the auction price that CT lists and I've been interested to try it. Good fill and great color and surprisingly just wonderful. First impression was a bit too much acid and slightly over the hill but given a few minutes in the glass it gained a bit more body to it and was really lovely and lively. Because of the format all small pours so didn't get to follow for any signficant amount of time although I did leave a bit of my pour till towards the end and found it was even more delicious then. Opened and decanted for sediment before rebottling and then bringing to the dinner.
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cfk49 commented:
1/19/23, 12:14 AM - I don't know if you are aware of it, but André Passat was a dba that Jaboulet used. It's exactly the same as the Jaboulet Cornas.
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MC2 Wines commented:
1/19/23, 1:37 AM - Nope. I knew that he didn’t produce anymore and do vineyards went to someone but not who they went to. That being said I’ve had some old jaboulet cornas and I’m not sure that they had quite got to this level with it. They to me were more interesting than really delicious.
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cfk49 commented:
1/19/23, 1:58 AM - I'm not sure what you mean by "he didn't produce anymore". Who is "he"?
Jaboulet Cornas was a négociant wine until 1993 when they bought the Domaine St-Pierre.
André Passat was not a producer in Cornas, but instead is an alternate label that Jaboulet used to sell wines (from all of Jaboulet's appellations) in markets that already had an established Jaboulet importer. The Passat wines generally sold at lower prices than the Jaboulet-label wines, but they were identical. (I think that at one time Passat was a separate negociant and that Jaboulet purchased Passat, but that's going way, way back.)