1998 Alain Voge Cornas

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 88.3 points

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  7/10/2011 - Tree512 wrote: 87 Points

  Still not what I am looking for but much better than the last bottle. Potentially heat-tainted. Overly mature red fruit with decent complexity but not the electricity one should get from this wine.

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  9/11/2010 - 5laton wrote:

  Really very nice considering it was a $29 auction purchase. Savory, bloody, structured and funky, and very Cornas. One of my favorites of the night.

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  2/20/2010 - KeithAkers wrote: 91 Points

  nose: classic cornas nose filled with black and white pepper, black cherries, olives, bacon fat, black fruits and some roasted meats. There is a bit of sweetness to the black fruits with real good balance overall
  
  taste: Fuller bodied with good tannins still showing themselves off. Well balanced with real good depth and tones of black pepper, some meaty tones, bacon fat, black cherries, some bits of smoke and an underbrush quality as well and even some hints of lilacs lie underneath
  
  overall: this had been decanted for about 90 minutes. Showing itself off very well and is pure Cornas. Some browning at the rim, this isn't showing off too much age to be honest. This bottle could go a good way and is just entering its window. Looking at the other notes, there does seem to be some serious bottle variation

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  11/21/2009 - Tree512 wrote: 83 Points

  I like dirt and earth as much as the next guy, but this was OTT. Short and underfruited, with lots of secondaries of soil. Bottle didn't taste flawed so much as unfortunate.

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  5/16/2009 - steffenpelz wrote:

  I think after tasting this bottle, I can conclude that the prior bottle was indeed slightly flawed. This bottle showed much better from the start. On night two, it started singing with the fruit having filled out. A soaring nose of olive tapenade and bacon fat with some good earthiness. On the palate the blackberry fruit comes through with some subtle black truffle and a heap of black olive, roasted meat and surprising minerality / crushed rocks. Finish is solid and overall, this is a slam dunk wine for fans of Rhone Syrah. And based on this showing, no pressing need to drink anytime soon.

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