2018 Mickaël Bourg Cornas Les P'tits Bouts

Community Tasting Notes (16) Avg Score: 92.4 points

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  12/1/2023 - PDXWineO wrote: 94 Points

  No official notes but in terms of a quality price ratio this is tough to beat!

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  11/21/2023 - Jpetrila Likes this wine:

  crunchy and peppery dark red fruited nose, real seam of briny olive goodness on the palate - delicious syrah

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  7/1/2023 - godx wrote: 92 Points

  Wow, really impressed with this. Polished like an Allemand but with a traditional a vein. Given the vintage, a ton of restraint. Not as rustic as Clape but more so akin to Allemand with that polished yet traditional style. Be great to see how these age. 92+

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  1/21/2023 - aero wrote: 92 Points

  Medium+ bodied, traditional styling, high quality real cork. Densely perfumed violet, cassis on first day while the palate is entirely backwards. Day 2 it opens a bit but still far too youthful: red and blue mountain berries, iron-rich granite, olives, and hints of game, smoked salt. All of which feels as if it's saturating your teeth.
  
  Time will tell if these elements come together, today it seems it will develop into a well-made-but-typical mountain berries + olive tapenade Syrah. Which isn't quite what I'm looking for out of Cornas terroir, but I'm enjoying it and will continue to buy and savor. Good value around USD $50 though.
  
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  PS - The Noel Verset comparisons? I'm not as sure, but never had NV this young. These P'tits didn't sell out until that one retailer figured out the marketing angle, then *poof*. For my money it hits in the style of, but between the quality of, A&E Verset ($40-50) and G. Gilles ($80-90). If you like your wine more polished but under USD $100, look to Vincent Paris "Geynale" and Alain Voge VV. None of this is to say Bourg is not an immense talent, as he is -- it's just not sporting to typecast him as the new Verset to sell wine.

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  1/14/2023 - jviz wrote: 92 Points

  This was a bit harshly acidic on day 1 so I recorked and revisited the next day. The wine blossomed nicely and was much more enjoyable.
  
  Rather lactic and showing its youth today. Dense and concentrated with blackberry fruit and olive. Polished and weighty, little if any VA. This should be nice in the future. It reminds me most of Alain Verset’s bottling. Gilles’ Cornas will be better in the future than this but I’m glad to hold a couple.

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