2000 Domaine Auguste Clape Cornas Renaissance

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 92.4 points

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  9/20/2016 - Lilja wrote: 92 Points

  No notes taken. Fairly developed with a lovely nose of cured meat, flowery perfume, red fruit, olive seeds, hay and dry tobacco. Dry on the palate with a medium body, round tannins and a medium+ intensity. A delicious wine, though I would recommend to drink rather than keep any longer.

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  3/27/2016 - BVal wrote: 93 Points

  Easter wine #5. Last tasted a little over two years ago and it is still pretty much the same though certainly more drinkable now than then. My wine of the day.
  
  Color: medium ruby -> medium ruby rim. No sign of bricking. Bouquet offered up animal scents, beef, barnyard, road tar and olives. Intoxicating nose right off the PnP. Palate was sturdy and quite agreeable. Dense, full bodied with still some tannins to resolve. Leather, olives and a little bacon. Definitely in its prime drinking window now and for quite a few years into the future. Great syrah and considering these are from Clape's "young" vines, I can only wonder how delicious the regular Cornas bottling must be!

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  7/24/2015 - Hodby wrote: 91 Points

  Medium red color, brilliance. Smokey, meaty, earthy nose, with olives, cranberry, dust. One taster said it suggested a smoldering closet full of old oily baseball mitts, a pomegranate in each. Yeah, that too. On arrival, medium-low tannin and medium acidity; has an energetic acidic lift. Flavors echoed from the nose, the meat and oily/tar elements more prominant than the fruit. Warm, round finish. Bottle #3 of six.

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  7/12/2013 - pbaek wrote:

  Discovered a couple of bottles of this in my cellar and decided to check in on one of them. Looks like a young wine in the glass, the color is still dark purple. Classic Clape aromatics, game, rustic fruit, Cornas. Smooth on the palate with wild, rustic flavors of dark fruit, dark olives, tar and smoke. Good persistence, even if this doesn't dig as deep as the Cornas bottling from Clape. Wonderful, true wine. With the Benkos and Milaccios in our house.

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  1/25/2013 - BVal wrote: 93 Points

  Color: medium ruby -> medium ruby rim. No sign of bricking. Bouquet offered up animal scents, beef, barnyard, road tar and olives. Intoxicating nose right off the PnP. Palate was sturdy and quite agreeable. Dense, full bodied with still some tannins to resolve. Leather, olives and a little bacon. I have the impression this is just starting into it's drinking window. Great syrah and considering these are from Clape's "young" vines, I can only wonder how delicious the regular Cornas bottling must be!

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