Winery - Éric & Jöel Durand
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Spicy—this is filled with pepper and clove notes—but there’s also lovely raspberry fruit. Fresh, balanced and easy to drink now but it should hold together through 2012.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Toasty upfront, with blatant oak and vanilla scents, but the wood is matched by the wine’s fruity—raspberry and blackberry—intensity. This is lip-smacking, mouthwatering stuff that can be drunk now and over the next 10 years.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Initially, this seems to be a somewhat rustic wine with animal aromas. But to taste, the fruit is ripe, powerful and finely structured, full of dark, black flavors. Put it away and let the cobwebs give the bottle character until the wine comes into its own.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A huge, ink-black wine with all the brooding majesty that gives Cornas its reputation. A blockbuster with enormous rich, sweet tannins. At the end it is the quality of the superripe fruit from old vines that dominates, but it is certainly a wine to keep for generations.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A finely perfumed wine, with powerful tannins but also excellent flavors of dark plums and ripe black fruits, with well-judged acidity and a sweet jelly character. This will develop relatively quickly for a Cornas, but still has all the right power and intensity.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Makers of more forward Cornas, the Durand brothers’ Prémice bottling is easy to drink right away, even in a tannic vintage like 2005. It’s ripely fruity and raspberry-scented, with grace notes of smoke, vanilla and spice. Drink now–2015.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
From vines more than 50 years old, this is a surprisingly lush, forward Cornas from a vintage known at most domaines for its hard tannins. Black cherry fruit surrounds a core of dense mineral flavors, with light touches of wood on the finish. It’s approachable now but should easily hold until at least 2015.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Highly perfumed, this is floral and peppery on the nose—a lovely style, complex and intriguing. Even better, while it’s elegant and silky-textured in the mouth, it doesn’t lack for substance like so many of the 2004s. Drink now–2015.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Black cherries are subtly perfumed with ground black pepper, and then carried across the palate aboard a round, mouthfilling wine bolstered by creamy-textured tannins. Nothing at all to dislike here. Drink now.
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