2015 Paul Jaboulet Aîné Cornas Les Grandes Terrasses

Community Tasting Notes (40) Avg Score: 91.1 points

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  5/18/2024 - StBlGT wrote: 88 Points

  Tastes more like CdP than Cornas. Tannin is well integrated and the acid level is medium+. No decant was needed...drinking nice on PnP.
  
  Light-medium body, ripe cherries and raspberries, cinnamon spice on tail end, and little to no complexity. There is no meaty, peppery, or earthiness that I like in my N. Rhones.
  
  It's an okay wine...good winemaking, but definitely nothing to write home about. Drink now-2030. 88 points.

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  4/8/2024 - Mmomike Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Petrol, slate, deep nearly blood-like minerality woven with medium acid, earth, blackberry, medium tannins. Good stuff and in a good spot for drinking now, it will likely improve but geez it’s tasty right now!

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  4/6/2024 - brewnello wrote: 91 Points

  Quite delicate. Medium acid and tannin, some light red fruit (raspberries and underripe plums). No pepper. Good but not memorable. Not sure if will develop more complex characteristics as I have little aged Northern Rhône Syrah but decent QPR. Drank without food from Coravin. Opened up over 30 minutes in glass.

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  3/22/2024 - Putnam Weekley wrote: 91 Points

  Some wines are chosen for 6-week parallax. This is an example. I found local stocks, shared some bottles, and so this is 2/12. I'm surprised by the plain, raw and grape-flavored youth here. It's as if carbonic maceration-adjacent Cornas Syrah blended with stubborn, rocky cru-extracted—foot trod, MOG-replete, dank pulp. As I drink it—passively cellar chilled, and directly, *PnP-style*—it blooms at every opportunity. Notice the red-raspberry cast to the fruit complex. It ranges to the sour red berry end of the Cornas Syrah spectrum. As the temperature passes through 60° F, it animates, becoming a different wine ...
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  ... gathering, in the way that voluntary people sometimes do, a congress appears of draped coffee oil, radish, chocolate, black currant, camphor, licorice, salted fat, menthol, and cordial pipe tobacco. Underneath, it's still juice. Shocking rich Colombian coffee (if not Corinthian leather) permeates every encounter with the cup.
  
  if this is frankenterroir, it's 91. If it's insight and trust, it's 95.

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  2/4/2024 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 93 Points

  1/3. From a bottle opened 20 hours ago, depleted of two-thirds, and resealed tabletop.
  EYE: color of carmine and burnt wood, nearly opaque.
  NOSE: flamboyant, sticky, red berry bruises and spice yesterday, now is gathered into an astonishing and mannered object of state and expression.
  MOUTH: serene fabric hosts little eruptions of doped raspberry, head-spinning Indian spices (including star anise and cumin) and suggestions in confidence of vanilla pod, broken slate, braised knuckle, and a storied library of pressed, savory herbs. The body remains agile for all the hedonism and fruit perfume. Acidity and tannin are supportive, though they both could star in their own show—such fine detail.
  SUMMARY: why not drink this up in the next few years?

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