1998 Domaine Auguste Clape Cornas

Community Tasting Notes (66) Avg Score: 92.6 points

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  2/17/2023 - VDLT Wine wrote:

  Either this was an off bottle or it needed more air-time than we could give it. There were very intriguing elements but they never meshed. The fruit was demure and there wasn’t much tannin so the acidity stood out and bordered on shrill. It wasn’t bad but not what I expected.

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  1/17/2023 - MC2 Wines wrote:

  Commanderie des Costes du Rhone - Spring 2023 Kick-off (Gabriel Kruether): Much more classic in style. All well integrated. In the middle of a lot of CdPs a welcome respite. Very enjoyable wine.

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  1/15/2023 - eboracum Likes this wine: 93 Points

  In spite of a crumbly cork and a fine dust of cork particles in the first glass which my strainer was unable to stop, this was a beautiful wine and much more expressive than my 2019 bottle. Medium bodied and harmonious showing subtle gracious fruit impregnated with cherry, violet, a balsamic hint and a touch of iron allied to good depth and length, velvety texture and residual structure supporting the finish. Somewhere in the mid-90s, perhaps due to generation change, the wines at Clape became much more suave and civilized without falling into a placeless international trap. Some people regret the passing of the previously typical slight rusticity and roughness but I find it impossible not to love a bottle like this. Excellent.

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  2/28/2022 - pbaek wrote:

  Closing in on maturity, barnyard, iron and violets on the nose. Rustic in the best sense of the word, marks of iodine, granite, meat, burnt soil. It’s lighter bodied compared to the massive 1999, almost elegant. Great wine, once again, and a great vintage for Cornas in general. Clape tasting chez Lillelund.

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  2/28/2022 - beatles wrote: 94 Points

  Mean machine, mature, barnyard, speaks of the land. a true wine, soil to glass - compared to 99, this has more local feel.

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