2016 Frank Cornelissen Munjebel VA

Community Tasting Notes (8) Median Score: 91 points

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  11/7/2022 - diggydan wrote: 86 Points

  A bunch of volatile acidity on this bottle. The wine carries the VA like a Musar or some Lopez de Heredias, so it could be drinkable depending on your tolerance....I drink a fair amount of Cornelissen and this is by far the worst wine since a foul bottle in 2012.

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  1/25/2022 - Peech wrote: 88 Points

  kinda sharp on the nose, a little pungent and sulfuric. Still grippy on the palate thanks to the tannins, kinda savory and mineral, maybe thanks to the volcanic soil? Lots of sous bois and forest in the nose, very ripe, like those thick skins of Kyoho grapes with the plastic notes.

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  7/3/2021 - rubipy wrote: flawed

  Effervescent and high acid. I genuinely thought VA stood for volatile acidity. It appeared this bottle was refermenting. Decanting helped. Should have rejected it.

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  5/28/2021 - Finare Vinare wrote: 91 Points

  The VA '16 has evolved quite quickly and is surely developed enough. Fairly full-bodied, it has enjoyable balance with lively salmiak minerality and integrated alcohol that's not too warming. The volatile acidity is certainly present, thankfully not too disturbing albeit no asset either. The wine was slightly more promising upon release, so Frank is probably moving in the right direction with recent small additions of so2. (Disclaimer: ITB with Swedish importer Vin & Natur)

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  4/12/2021 - andrei trolldeig wrote: 84 Points

  As mentioned before by Acyso, this VA cuvee is a lesson in volatile acid. First day it was totally dominated by it, together with a tannin bite. The second day I could actually enjoy it, beeing prepered on the Va dominance. I had to avoid the nose, and try to close in on the nice chewy Cornelissen palate on what I usually think of as dusty pottery.
  With the nose so dominated by the volaitle acids, any kind of fruit doesn´t come through either days.
  I have had many enjoyable Contadinos and standard Munjebels, and I have more experiences with those ones without the Va. This however, is a Va lesson, but not a very enjoyable one. Its weird that mr. Cornelissen concerns himself with details as super high-tech corks, but lets his wines be so dominated by Va.

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