2010 M. Chapoutier Cornas Les Arenes

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 90.3 points

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  7/25/2021 - Lemmy-W wrote: 92 Points

  This was by far better bottle than the one I had a year ago. Really nice example of good Syrah.

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  12/19/2020 - Lemmy-W wrote: 88 Points

  Not impressed. Opened two hours before consumption and drank during next 5 hours. Improves with air, but still quite a disappointment. Basic Old world Syrah.

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  10/25/2020 - JimSlatin Likes this wine: 92 Points

  drinks like an older Syrah and I mean in a good way; Had the white pepper and dark fruit, along with some earthy notes I would expect in a wine with more years behind it. Has an elegance to it that I really enjoyed

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  5/4/2015 - forceberry wrote: 84 Points

  Having tasted the vintage 2011 of this wine a few months earlier, I was really looking forward to tasting this wine from this acclaimed vintage.
  
  Opaque and concentrated black cherry color that still retains a hint of youthful purple hue. The nose is spicy, tarry and smoky with rich and quite powerful aromas of sweet oak spice, concentrated blackberries, some plum jam, a little bit of mocha, a hint of coffee chocolate and a touch of licorice. The wine is full-bodied, concentrated and chewy on the palate with powerful flavors of toasty oak, plum jam, blackberry marmalade, mocha coffee, some licorice, a little bit of peppery spice, a hint of savory wood spice and a hint of smoky crisp bacon. The wine feels pretty structured with moderately high acidity and ample, firm and very grippy tannins. The finish is tannic and grippy with some alcohol warmth and long, powerful and oak-driven flavors of coffee chocolate, toasty wood, ripe blackberries, some peppery spice, a little bit of juicy plummy fruit, a hint of dry wood and a touch of sweet vanilla.
  
  Ugh. Compared to the vintage 2011 (generally regarded a lot lower in quality), this 2010 was a big disappointment. I don't know if the wine was vinified in a same way, or if the winemaker thought that this vintage could take on a lot more new oak, but this really tasted of wood, wood and wood with very little else going on. There's some nice, seriously brooding and grippy Cornas action underneath it all, but all the flavors are buried so heavily under all that new oak that it is basically impossible to get a reading on the quality of fruit. I hope the oak will integrate with the fruit at some point, but I'm quite certain it won't be within the next 10 years. There are a lot better Cornas wines out there with more emphasis on the fruit instead of excessive oak. Not worth the 36,50€.

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  4/28/2015 - Russfeit Likes this wine: 94 Points

  I may be a bit out of line with other commenters, but this was one of the best wines I've had all year. The tasting notes of others are on the mark -- Great red fruit with licorice and barnyard notes developing over a couple of hours. Tannins and acidity are present but not in any way oppressive. Fantastic complexity and balance from start to end, and the years should only add to the experience.

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