Jean-Luc Colombo Cornas Les Terres Brulees 2016
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A deep ruby-black color with purple hints. On the nose, blackcurrant, dark cherries, and blackberries, with spices, licorice, and cocoa. A very rich mouthfeel with flavors of black fruit, jam, vanilla, spice and mineral notes.
Excellent with game, beef, lamb, barbecue foods, roasted pork and a variety of other hearty dishes.
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While moderate in body, this bombshell Syrah penetrates the palate with ripe cassis and black-cherry flavors. It's dazzling now for its forward black-fruit tones and fiery spice, but tense tannins and invigorating acidity should allow it to improve through 2031.
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Very fresh, with a bright, almost piercing core of kirsch and bitter cherry, laced with chalky minerality, dried savory and light olive notes. The long, pure finish lets a white pepper accent float through. Best from 2022 through 2032.
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Fragrant, peppery Cornas with spicy, blackcurrant aromas and flavors. The tannins are smooth and crisp. A lighter style here.
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Marked by an unmistakable deep purple hue and savory aromatics, Syrah makes an intense, powerful and often age-worthy red. Native to the Northern Rhône, Syrah achieves its maximum potential in the steep village of Hermitage and plays an important component in the Red Rhône Blends of the south, adding color and structure to Grenache and Mourvèdre. Syrah is the most widely planted grape of Australia and is important in California and Washington. Sommelier Secret—Such a synergy these three create together, the Grenache, Syrah, Mourvedre trio often takes on the shorthand term, “GSM.”
Distinguished as a fine Syrah producing zone since the 18th century, Cornas, like Cote Rotie, is made up of vineyards covering steep and hard-to-work, granite terraces. As a result the region’s wines fell out of favor during the mid 20th century when the global market was more focused on bulk wines and vineyards that yielded high quantities. It wasn’t until the 1980s when a group of energetic young winemakers reestablished the integrity of these precipitous terraces and also began making an ultra-modern style of Syrah. The new style didn’t need a decade before it was drinkable and could reach the consumer faster than the region’s traditional wines. Given the new quality coming out of the zone, its popularity once again soared and today a good Cornas can easily challenge many of those from Hermitage. Characteristics of Syrah from Cornas include teeth-staining flavors of blackberry jam, plum, pepper, violets, smoked game, charcoal, chalk dust and smoke.