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Caroline Frey told me that there was “extreme variation during the entire growing season” in 2017. “It’s not an easy one to generalize,” she said, pointing out that the resulting wines don’t behave like those from most hot vintages. “It was a warm, dry winter and it got things started fast, with budbreak in late March, more than two weeks earlier than 2016.” But then there was delayed flowering that began only in early June because of cold weather that came in mid-April and held steady until the end of May. The weather warmed up quickly and hot, dry conditions, with the exception of some hard rains in May and mid-June, defined the late spring and the summer. Harvest commenced early, in the second week of September, and clement weather allowed it to extend into mid-October, with a small crop realized of ‘healthy and uniformly ripe fruit across the appellations.” The resulting wines are “well-concentrated from the warmth, low yields and small berries, but also quite energetic for their volume and power,” Caroline Frey thinks. These 2017s are, indeed, on the rich side, with plenty of depth, power and dark fruit character. They are not overripe, however, which should help them age slowly and positively.

From 2017 and 2018 Northern Rhône (Jul 2019) by Josh Raynolds

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2017 Cornas Domaine de Saint-Pierre

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