1997 Domaine Thierry Allemand Cornas Sans Soufre

Purple color. Pure aromas of licorice, black olive and smoke. Sweet and tangy in the mouth, with kirsch and black raspberry fruitiness and finishing notes of spicy blackberry and licorice. Delicious wine. Allemand, who uses minimal sulfur in his other cuvées, says the tarry quality shown by so much Cornas is the effect of reduction resulting from (excessive) use of sulfur.