Community Tasting Note
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Keith Levenberg Likes this wine: 96 points
January 8, 2014 - This is such an old-style Cornas that it hardly even bears a resemblance to any Cornas in my memory, yet a Martian could probably recognize it as Cornas going just by the descriptions of Cornas in old books. It is rough, rustic, and wild, a wine for the Marlboro Man, with searing sandpaper-textured tannins of the type almost nobody has the guts to make (or drink) anymore. The body of the wine manages to stand up to all that muscle as it is just packed with grip and grit; you've got to scrape it off your tongue every couple of sips. It's concentrated and dense with something but not anything remotely fruit-like; it's full of savory, dry-aged flavors (but not really meaty, just the patina of dry aging) and a snap of something fresher and greener on account of the stems.
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Enfantterrible commented:
2/1/16, 6:22 AM - Long time listener, first time caller. This producer is so old school, it doesn't appear anywhere on wine-searcher.com. If you don't mind sharing, where can we find this wine?
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Keith Levenberg commented:
2/1/16, 11:51 AM - They sell out much faster these days. You just missed the 2012 by a couple of weeks. Stay tuned around this time next year and you should be able to get the 2013s. They aren't hard to find, but you have to act fast.
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Enfantterrible commented:
2/1/16, 8:17 PM - Much obliged.