2016 Franck Balthazar Cornas Cuvée Casimir Balthazar

Community Tasting Notes (16) Avg Score: 91.4 points

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  3/1/2024 - bottles.and.bites Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Olive brine & purple florals, blackberry and some peppery spiciness. Palate is big, slightly tannic finish. Very approachable, probably could still use some air or time. Florals really pop.

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  10/7/2023 - Vas19 wrote: 93 Points

  A little over a year since my last bottle. Needs a couple hours of air for the nose to get going, but gorgeous classic syrah when it does. The palate has come around somewhat since last year, less tight and tannic, but still not quite revealing everything that's there. Anyway, a very good bottle of syrah!

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  8/15/2022 - Vas19 wrote: 93 Points

  Such an incredible aroma to this wine - I could smell this all day. The palate however is still young, tense, and nervy, hopefully in a few years the palate lives up to the aroma.

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  6/11/2022 - ceadsearc Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Frank Balthazar Cornas Cuvee Casimir 2016
  On the nose, white pepper and thyme, herbs of Provence, olive, olive tapenade, vegetal and grassy. The palate is also elegant, with black fruit, vegetal notes, herb de Provence, thyme, olives, sweetness at the end, somewhat grassy. 93/100

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  11/26/2021 - EricU Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Hit another level after hour 4
  
  Perfect balance. Earth, stone, dark fruits. Soft tannins

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