2019 Domaine Lionnet Cornas Les Terres Brulees
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Opaque ruby. Black and blue fruits, exotic spices, potpourri and botanical herbs on the deeply perfumed, spice- and mineral-accented nose. Juicy and deeply concentrated but lively as well, offering palate-staining blueberry, kirsch, fruitcake and salty olive flavors that are sharpened by smoky mineral and cracked pepper notes. Youthfully chewy tannins build steadily on a very long focused finish that echoes the blue fruit, mineral and floral notes.
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The 2019 Cornas Terre Brûlée showed brilliantly, with an exotic style in its darker fruits as well as notes of camphor, balsam wood, plums, and ground pepper. It has tons of minerality on the palate and is full-bodied, concentrated, and powerful, with enough tannins to warrant a solid 5-7 years of bottle age. It’s a beautiful, classic, impeccably made Cornas that will have two decades of longevity.
Suave, mineral-accented blackberry, cassis, cherry compote and exotic spice qualities on the intensely perfumed nose, along with a slowly emerging floral nuance. Sappy and penetrating on the palate, displaying powerful lift to the concentrated black and blue fruit, floral pastille and spicecake flavors. Finishes extremely long and spicy, with pronounced mineral thrust, a hint of smoky bacon and gently chewy, well-knit tannins.