2015 Franck Balthazar Cornas Cuvée Casimir
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Bright violet. Highly perfumed cassis, boysenberry, violet, olive and mineral scents show excellent clarity. Densely packed, smooth and energetic on the palate, offering concentrated black and blue fruit and floral pastille flavors that are given spine by a core of juicy acidity. Shows appealing sweetness on the impressively persistent finish, which features rounded tannins and lingering blue fruit and floral notes.
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Josh Raynolds
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Bright violet. Vibrant, smoke-accented dark berries, candied flowers, licorice and allspice on the highly fragrant nose. Sappy, penetrating and seamless on the palate, offering alluringly sweet black raspberry, cherry compote and spicecake flavors that show excellent clarity and mineral lift. Expressive and distinctly elegant in style; silky tannins build slowly on a very long, floral-dominated finish.
Youthful violet. Spice- and mineral accented dark berry and floral pastille scents show excellent clarity and pick up deeper licorice and cola nuances with air. Sappy and sharply focused on the palate, offering juicy boysenberry and bitter cherry flavors lifted by a zesty note of cracked pepper. Powerful yet lithe, with excellent finishing clarity; smooth tannins sneak in late to add grip.