Community Tasting Notes 31

• tcarter Likes this wine: 94 points

  October 27, 2023 - Ojai Food + Wine Festival; 10/26/2023-10/29/2023 (Ojai Valley Inn): The greatness that I have come to expect from an Allemand Reynard. Awesome juice.

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• rlove wrote: 91 points

  January 15, 2023 - Restrained, with muted fruit, but a fair dose of smoke and game. Dark fruit on the palate, ripe acidity, soft tannins. This could need more time but I also see notes going back over four years calling the wine restrained and wondering when the 2001 will emerge from a dull period and you have to ask if it ever will or if this is the wine as it is. Good enough but not what you hope for with Allemand.

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• VinhoVerde Likes this wine: 92 points

  September 20, 2022 - Oak, smoked meats, and plum bouquet. Still a little young! Powerful, slightly rustic wine. Still has some residual tannins, even now. Long, long finish. Take no prisoners Syrah!

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• Nanda wrote: 93 points

  October 8, 2019 - Allemand Survey (Sepia): More brooding, darker and smokier than the 01 Chaillot tasted side-by-side. Deep aromas that are less precise with stem and herbal fruit. Palate is similarly bigger and chunkier with black fruit that sports a smoky and stemmy profile. Big and a touch clipped given its more substantial stature.

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• acyso wrote: 95 points

  October 8, 2019 - A Survey of Allemand (Chicago, IL): Pretty consistent with my previous note, this is a dark and burly rendition of Allemand. The nose initially has a little mushroom and stinky funk, but the purity of the black fruit starts shining through with some air. Versus the more red-toned 2001 Chaillot, I think this wine still has some ways to go as far as maturity; for drinking now, I preferred the Chaillot. In particular, this still feels a little clamped, with tannins that are still a touch grainy and not yet fully resolved. I reckon that this needs a few more years.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2001
• Type Red
• Producer Thierry Allemand
• Varietal Syrah
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Reynard
• Country France
• Region Rhône
• SubRegion Northern Rhône
• Appellation Cornas

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• Pending Delivery 5 (1%)
• In Cellars 261 (57%)
• Consumed 188 (41%)

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