2015 Alain Voge Cornas Les Vieilles Vignes

Community Tasting Notes (26) Avg Score: 91.8 points

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  5/14/2024 - ERU wrote: 93 Points

  Decanted 11 hours. Needed all of them. The tannins are still rather assertive, but the bottle did offer up pleasure. The nose is classic wet rock Cornas. Palate is a bowl of unripened red and black fruits, minerality, and black olives.
  
  Solid bottle of wine that has tremendous potential. In another handful of years, we could be in a sweet spot.
  
  You know, dear fellow CTers, it occurs to me that we have a decided advantage over the rest of the population. Consider: I am an adequate to enthusiastic parent, a spouse who’s partner still occasionally makes me weak in the knees, a fierce dog lover, and a best friend. Why do I primarily wish to remain as healthy and cognizant as possible? What makes me think, “You go another mile, damnit,” or, “You wanna smoke WHAT?” It is the wine. It is all the aging wine.
  

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  8/12/2023 - Rockterroir Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Iron, wet stone, inky, tart dark cherry, still tannin on long finish.

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  2/19/2023 - SH Wu wrote: 90 Points

  Concentrated black fruits with a big handful of savory spices and a small sprinkle of baking spices. Darker flavors of licorice and creme de cassis build a brooding backdrop for the experience.
  
  This is a nice wine that likely still has some time to go before it shows its true colors.

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  1/30/2023 - Vladutz Likes this wine:

  In a odd place right now, i would hold this a few years. Good but not opened for business

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  10/16/2022 - VAGenius Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Nose of bright purple fruit, perfumed flowers, and some dusty notes. Plush palate of deep, dark fruit with a powerful forward drive bringing iron, dried herbs, thistle, and wet rocks across the tongue. Wild finish with layers of boysenberry, damson plum, tart unripe cherry, wet soil, and slate. What a sophisticated wine that's drinking well but will certainly last quite a bit longer - it's hard to describe the nuances.

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