2015 Cornas Chaillot

Wine Details
Place of Origin

France

Cornas

Northern Rhône

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

Syrah

Reviews & Tasting Notes

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Drinking Window

2024 - 2032

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An unabashed enthusiast of elegant wines, Thierry Allemand told me that while he admires the 2015s for their concentration and power, it’s vintages like 2014 and, especially, 2016 that get him the most excited. “Great wines have detail, which is hard to achieve in hot years when the wines are ripe and also in years that feature serious structure, like 2010 or 2005,” he said. He added that his 2015s show greater freshness and elegance than, for example, his ‘09s and definitely his ‘03s, very ripe vintages that were short on balancing acidity, “making for big wines and not especially fine ones. The ‘15s will be energetic and will probably also age longer.” All that said, I guess I like Allemand’s ‘15s better than he appears to, as they avoid any superripe character and simply possess greater depth than any wines I’ve tasted here since the ‘09s, which are still far short of entering what I would consider to be their plane of peak drinkability.

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Calling 2014 "a seriously challenging and stressful vintage,” Thierry Allemand added that it "required a lot of work in the vineyards because the fruit flies attacked strongly and the fruit had to be very carefully selected." Coupled with the delayed ripening caused by the cool summer, "it is definitely a vintage where the best growers stood out." The relative softness of acids and tannins in the '14s will make them better wines to enjoy young than the '13s, he thinks, "and they show very good depth and richness" that might make them age surprisingly well, "since they have plenty of fruit to age on."