2018 Domaine Vincent Paris Cornas Granit 30
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Opaque ruby. Fresh blackberry and cherry scents, along with suggestions of baking spices, olive and pungent flowers. Appealingly sweet black and blue fruit flavors gain energy and spiciness with air while a smoky mineral element adds back-end cut. Even tannins add gentle grip to an impressively long, floral-tinged finish that leaves a spicy note behind.
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Richard Hemming MW, jancisrobinson.com
Jeb Dunnuck
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Moving to the Cornas releases, the 2018 Cornas Granit 30 comes from slightly younger vines and vineyards further down on the slope, closer to the village. Completely destemmed and brought up in used barrels, it offers a complex bouquet of blue fruits, lavender, violets, and sweet incense as well as a medium to full-bodied, rounded, sexy style on the palate that carries lots of sweet fruit that almost hides sound underlying structure. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to taste the 2017s from Paris.
100% Syrah. Aged for 16 months in old oak. Cask sample. Tasted blind. Simple red fruit, very youthful and fermenty still, with paint aromas on the palate. Raw. (RH)
Deep, bright-rimmed magenta. Bright and energetic on the fragrant nose, displaying intense black/blue fruit and floral scents that pick up olive and cracked pepper notes as the wine stretches out. In a juicy, fruit-driven style, offering appealingly sweet cherry, blueberry flavors, suggestions of spicecake, licorice and cola. Finishes very long and smooth, with just a hint of fine-grained tannins and resonating spiciness.