2015 Domaine Alain Voge 'Les Vieilles Vignes' Cornas

Winemaker Notes: A season in the norms of our soils, with favorable weather but rainy in spring, forcing us to a great vigilance on the cryptogamic pressure. A beautiful summer and a beautiful late season followed, allowing the optimal maturity of a fairly abundant harvest. While balanced, the wines are full of elegance, while expressing the typicity of both Cornas and Saint-Péray.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM


Wine Spectator - "Dark yet inviting, with a well of boysenberry and blackberry compote flavors luring you in, while charcoal, bay leaf and cast iron notes add contrast and range to hold your attention. The grippy finish shows cut and energy, with a lingering savory and rosemary edge. Best from 2021 through 2037. "


Robert Parker's Wine Advocate - "Rich, deep and layered, the 2015 Cornas Vieilles Vignes has it all. Big fruit allied to spicy complexity? Check. Ample tannins that are fully ripe? Check. A finish that extends for days? Check. Oh, you want details? Hints of brown sugar, savory spices and roast meat accent black berry and plum fruit, and while the mid-palate is dense and tannic, those tannins actually turn more supple and approachable on the lingering finish."


Wine Enthusiast - "Layers of charred meat, granite and anise lend complexity to blackberry and cherry on the nose of this wine. Despite the ample fruit it maintains an earthen, mineral undertone and long finish with ripe, persistent tannins. This riveting wine should open and meld over the next decade and hold further. *Editors' Choice*"


Vinous - "Brilliant purple. A highly perfumed bouquet displays ripe, mineral-tinged black and blue fruit, potpourri and incense qualities. Fleshy and expansive on the palate, offering densely packed yet energetic boysenberry, candied licorice and violet flavors enlivened by an undercurrent of juicy acidity. Smoothly blends richness and finesse and closes extremely long and youthfully tannic, leaving behind sexy floral pastille and dark berry liqueur notes."