Cornas Jana,

Destination

Johann Michel, Cornas Jana, 2020

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Johann Michel, Cornas Jana, 2020

The Domaine’s top cuvee, Jana 2020 is a blend of vines from Chaillot, Combes and Le Cote fermented with 100% whole bunches. A two to three week cuvaison was followed by 14 months in second and third use demi-muids. A baritone expression of Cornas, the Jana exhibits brooding sultry hedgerow fruits with hints of cassis and espresso, liquorice and salt. Pine and mint emerge as the wine finds a opens up to reveal layers of savoury spice and minerals; a wine of rigour and depth with a long echoing finish.

Maturity:

Keep

ABV:

14%

97/100

Josh Raynolds, Vinous

Dark purple. Highly perfumed, oak-spiced black and blue fruits, incense, vanilla and potpourri on the hugely perfumed nose, along with hints of licorice, smoked meat and mocha. Stains the palate with concentrated, spice-laced blueberry, cassis, cherry-vanilla and espresso flavors that turn sweeter as the wine opens up. Broad, polished tannins add shape to a strikingly long, smoke- and spice-driven finish that strongly echoes the floral and blue fruit notes.

Date Reviewed:

12/2022

Drinking Window:

2030 - 2040

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