2011 Domaine du Coulet (Matthieu Barret) Cornas Brise Cailloux

Community Tasting Notes (20) Median Score: 90 points

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  5/8/2021 - Neecies Likes this wine:

  For years I've wondered if the iridescent, dancing letters on the label hinted at a modern, "fun" style wine, and now I know: yes. (Not that I ever want a Cornas to be 'fun', I don't, I bought these sight unseen.) Definitely modern: bright, somewhat extracted, all black fruit, very smoky. Initially offputting, but in the second hour everything calmed down and it was more like drinking a big bodied pinot than a syrah. Okay, but not my cup of tea.

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  7/3/2020 - Seafoam Manor wrote: 92 Points

  This was all over the place, so adjust your score and preference accordingly. Right after opening, this was a bit spritzy and super primary, totally unlike a nine year old wine. After an hour and a half-ish decant, it was really good, although it drank more like a cooler Santa Ynez Valley Syrah... Fruit forward; blackberry, boysenberry, red plum all on top of smoked meat, bacon fat, pepper and olives. At the three+ hour mark, this gets a lot more savory and more "traditional" to the Norther Rhone; black olives turn a tinge green, lots of pepper, less meat... fading fruit, but it still manages to pop back up again. The tannins and the acid are very well integrated, so the backbone is there, but the meat on the bone is not Olympic.
  
  Mercurial wine. I would suggest trying to catch the hour-ish peak of the fruit and then savoring the meatier slide. At two hours or so, this was fantastic with a deep pork ragu. Not a wine for the cellar, drink now, but adjust your immediate drinking window by the hour. Scoring this is a bit pointless because it goes from high peaks to meh-ish valleys from sip to sip. Complexity outweighs decadence... that sounds pretentious, ugh.
  
  ***If you can stand this up for a day or so, you'll be happier. Failing that, decant carefully, as the bottom gets chunky.

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  5/20/2018 - Tigerw2019 Does not like this wine: 80 Points

  Overwhelming taste of olives

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  11/25/2017 - MAXIMUM SATISFACTION wrote: 87 Points

  Very acidic and tannic. Easily identifiable as Syrah but lacking depth definitely needing some time to open. Bright red fruit, kalamata olive brine, iron, and pepper.

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  4/29/2017 - srh Likes this wine:

  Vin de France Partie (The WineSellar & Brasserie, San Diego, CA): N: Fragrantly smoky with a blk olive component
  
  P: Med, poss MF, body; Almost swtish frt met by an astringent pucker which almost TOTALLY untangles itself by the LONG, very pleasant finish. Lovely stuff for now, though it could well cruise 'til '19 in a cellar, then drink through '22? Tasted @ $51.99. 16+/20 Jancis Robinson (11/19/12), + 2 addt’l scores on wine-searcher's Tasting Notes pg. [As of early May '20, wine-searcher only shows 1, full case, preorder source].

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