March 30, 2024 - Cool blue fruit, violets, smoked meats, licorice pastille, barnyard, herbs. Good amount of soft and rich fruit. Tannins are toned down, but still some left. I wouldn’t hold onto this much longer because I want some structure and resistance. Very good!
February 2, 2024 - This is wine is just brilliant. Probably right on point maturiy wise. There’s blackberry, black currant, licorice, meat, black olives, pepper and bay leaf. Fresh with a bit of niggly tannins.
May 7, 2023 - En match contre Beaucastel de 98 qui a largement dominé la rencontre.
Le millésime 98 sur Rhône méridionale étant nettement plus qualitatif que 2014 sur Rhône Septentrional.
Aussi le Cornas au début de son plateau s’améliorera-t-il avec les années ?
Pas certain, ayant noté à mon goût un manque de matière et densité en bouche.
Ce qui pour le cépage Syrah et cuvée haut de gamme de ce domaine semble contradictoire avec mon ressenti à date.
À voir dans 6/7 ans avec prochaine.
January 21, 2023 - Had over two nights. Full bodied, mature with leather, meaty, long and complex. In a sweet spot now, I would enjoy from now and the next two years.
December 3, 2022 - Smokey, meaty bacon notes, black cherry, blackberry, licorice. Medium+ acidity, medium tannins, long finish. Lush and deep, lovely example of Northern Rhone Syrah
September 29, 2022 - [Restaurant purchase] blinded by the sommelier and arrived at Northern Rhone driven by the typical black fruit with bacon, meaty and some licorice notes. Great surpise, lovely wine
February 17, 2022 - Outstanding young Cornas, shimmering with bright energy and showing more openness and elegance than I expected at this age. It isn't as packed and structured as the surrounding vintages and clearly won't go the distance they will. On the contrary, it offers an immediately attractive perfume and plenty of red/purple-fruited, smokey, meaty goodness set against a cool, mineral spine. There's just enough wildness and tannic bite on the finish to remind you this is Cornas. A few more years will do it good, but there's no crime in enjoying one now.
June 5, 2020 - A beautiful purplish-red robe, quite opaque at the center. Soaring aromatics full of ripe blackberry, forest notes, cocoa, and baking spice with only traces of grassy, feral funk, often a hallmark of Cornas. The nose here is both elegant and restrained without any hint of being manipulated into submission.
Simply smashing on the palate, soft almost velvety in texture, expressing ripe fruit that flirts with sweetness and fleeting impressions of tapenade I didn't pick up at first on the nose. Tannins fairly gentle but with sufficient grip on the upper gumline for a firm dry finish. 14% ABV does not intrude.
I tend to drink syrah and especially Cornas more frequently in cooler weather but this was a great choice tonight, and I loved it with a gourmet takeout lamb gyro.
January 16, 2020 - (at the Clove Club – London) I am a huge fan of Paris’ wines and this is no exception. Meaty, bacon and bright red fruits are a terrific combination. Excellent tonight but will improve for decades. (93+)
November 22, 2019 - At first a Heavy smokiness on the nose, but with air much more of sweet red fruits, leather and Tobacco. On the palate medium bodied, with noticeable yet elegant tannin, lively acidity and a Lovely micx of red and dark berries, with some meaty carahter. Good stuff.