Red Wine: 2014 | Domaine Auguste Clape | Cornas

Bright purple. Powerful, smoke-accented black and blue fruit, candied flowers, licorice, olive and Indian spices on the deeply perfumed nose.

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Producer: Domaine Auguste Clape

Ratings: WA | 93 WS | 95

Vintage: 2014

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13%

Varietal: Syrah

Country/Region: France, Rhone

Bright purple. Powerful, smoke-accented black and blue fruit, candied flowers, licorice, olive and Indian spices on the deeply perfumed nose. Sappy, concentrated and seamless on the palate, offering alluringly sweet blackberry, cherry compote, violet pastille and spice cake flavors that show excellent clarity and mineral lift.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: The 2014s are more elegant, silky and streamlined, yet offer classic characters and will evolve gracefully. Similar to the Renaissance, with tons of cedary spice, pepper, iron, beef blood, crushed rock and new saddle leather, the 2014 Cornas is medium to full-bodied, nicely concentrated and structured, with ripe, present tannin.

• Wine Spectator: Solidly packed, with a bramble-edged core of dark plum, bitter cherry and black currant fruit, inlaid with bay leaf and savory notes. The serious chalky grip through the finish will need some time to stretch out. Shows terrific interplay between the grip and fruit.

Producer Information

Domaine Auguste Clape is a wine estate in the Cornas appellation of the northern Rhne. The domaine is named for its eponymous owner, who is considered among the world’s most highly regarded producers, particularly for his wines made from Syrah. The estate comprises only 8 hectares (20 acres) of old vines on prime parcels of sunny, steeply terraced vineyards on the western banks of the Rhne. The grapes are picked as late as possible for optimum ripeness, which often involves risky gambles with the weather. Individual parcels are fermented in old oval foudres. The Auguste Clape Cornas is one of the most popular wines from the appellation, and serves as the flagship wine. Alongside this, the Cornas Cornas Cuve Renaissance provides a slightly more approachable expression, and is made from younger vines. Auguste Clape also makes a Ctes du Rhne and the Vin des Amis Vin de France from 100-percent Syrah, as well as tiny amounts of Saint Pray Blanc, from just 0.2ha (0.5 acres) of Marsanne. The estate was founded by Clape’s grandfather, a grower who moved from Languedoc after the grower strikes of 1906-07 and set up in Cornas.