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“Talk to Guillaume.”
My preferences in Cornas are the guys aiming for a more traditional approach. You know, no destemming or at least not completely, longer skin contact, larger casks, older casks, no fining and no filtration. That kind of stuff. Cornas simply doesn’t work well the modern way, reducing way too much of its [...]
Perhaps not as refined tannins as in 2010, but that is compensated by a to die for-coolness in the vibrant and pure fruit. Add some oriental spices, black olives in brine, a dash of greenness, violets, loads of oozing wet rocks and you probably understand the 2011 Cornas from Pierre-Marie and Olivier Clape is right up [...]
From 17 C in Avignon to 5 C in Tain l’Hermitage. Spring canceled. But who cares? Finally I got the chance to run up that hill….
Pilgrimage number one – Hermitage. When it comes to Syrah there’s nothing like a northern Rhône in my world. Hence the undescribable feeling when walking [...]
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