Gilles, Guillaume 2023 Cornas Les Rieux (Arrives 9/29)

100% Syrah (0.5 ha 2012, 0.2 ha 2013, 0.35 ha 2014, is 70% massale Syrah from Les Bessards at Hermitage, 30% clone Syrah from Domaine de Bonserine at Côte-Rôtie) from loose, sandy white granite soils at 400-450 metres on Les Rieux, crop crushed, whole bunch fermentation, 3-4 week vinification, manual cap punching, 1 or 2 pumping overs at the start and finish, malo in cask, aged 4-5 year 600-litre oak casks 12 months, unfined, unfiltered. "quite a gentle red robe; there is an open swoop of liqueur fruit on the nose, soaked red cherries, griottes, notes of rosemary, sweet dark red berry jam. The palate is ebullient, doesn’t hold back, is on soaked fruits, a fleshy wine that goes charging along, the tannins sanded. The fruit is unbridled. It’s rocking, off the wall Cornas, its fruit explores your palate. It can extend towards the finish in another couple of years, for example. The finish is a bit on chalkiness for now. Now is its gilded youth, and it may close, can run on in the scheme of things. I would eat a tajine of lamb with spices avec. 12.5°. From spring 2027. Drink until 2043-45" Drink Rhone