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Domaine Johann Michel Cornas Cuvee Mere Michel 2019

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Region

Producer

Vintage
2019

Size
750ML

ABV
14.5%

Features
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  • 97
    This is a showstopper red made from 100% Sérine, the aromatic and uniquely Northern Rhône variance of Syrah. It's a haunting, complex wine marked by hints of violet, ore, blood and steel, but also a core of luscious blueberry and preserved-plum flavors. Vinified in whole-grape clusters, it maintains freshness and cut despite massive ripeness. Delicious young, the wine will gain depth with age. At peak from 2025 through 2040, it likely will hold further.
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  • 94

    Ripe, lushly styled waves of blackberry and black currant preserves are backed by singed alder and tobacco leaf notes and a strong tug of burly tar through the finish. The combination makes for an impressive rendering of Syrah.

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Domaine Johann Michel

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Domaine Johann Michel, France
Johann Michel discovered his passion for wine while tasting older vintages of wine with his grandfather and uncle, notable winemaker Robert Michel, in Cornas. Though he started his professional life working in clothing retail, he quickly realized that he was neither making the most of his talents nor “living the dream” nor carrying on the family tradition. His first vintage of his own label Cornas was 1997. He now farms 4.17 hectares in Cornas, one of the smallest AOCs in all of France (it encompasses only 288 hectares,) in the leonine lieux-dits of Bayonnet, Les Côtes, Chaillots, and Saveaux. Though his methods at this point are largely constituted as lutte raisonnée, Michel is interested in biodynamics and has already started to incorporate some practices like cooper treatment as opposed to harsher chemicals on the vines. Yields for Cornas AOC are notoriously low (33 hl/ha) which accounts for the intense concentration of the juice over all. His total annual production amounts only to about 20,000 btls/year.
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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.”

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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.

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