Hints and tips:
...The same is true of Cornas where there seem to be some interesting new producers, though St-Péray 2015s seem unusually flabby....
...Tête, Memoria Vieilles Vignes 2013 Beaujolais • Cave de Tain, Cuvée 88/77 2014 Cornas • Cave St-Verny Pinot Noir 2014 Puy de Dôme • Ortas, Ico(o)n 2010 Rasteau • Cellier des Princes, Les Hauts des Coteaux...
...Louis Jaboulet, who directed the merchant house of Paul Jaboulet Aîné for many years, summarised its style as “hard and acid”; rusticity and unripe stalkiness were also once common here....
...Cornas managed to avoid extremes of weather and was described by Mark Haisma, a relatively new recruit to the appellation, as “spectacularly boring”....
...Grisières St-Joseph red René Rostaing ● La Landonne Côte Rôtie ● Côte Blonde Côte Rôtie Marc Sorrel ● Le Gréal Hermitage red ● Les Rocoules Condrieu Tardieu Laurent ● Hermitage red ● Vieilles Vignes Cornas...
...The Louis Vuitton capital is the next village to us. The area is very nice, friendly, self-sufficient.”...
...Little has changed in the Hermitages of Chave as the reins have been handed from Gérard to 42-year-old Jean-Louis....
...Nevertheless, the best Hermitage, such as those produced by Jean-Louis Chave (once again run by a Jean-Louis, California-trained son of Gérard), Chapoutier and Delas can deliver uniquely French, solid, savoury...
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