Cornas, Reynard, 2005
An old vine cuvée that is a blend of wine from the Reynard vineyard and some of the Domaine's other smaller parcels, this is perfumed, exuberant and as exciting and complex as Cornas can get. Scents of violet and cherry combined with flavours of rich blackberry notes set in a velvety, sumptuous tannic framework. For the long term.
critic reviews
(this is essentially the Chaillot with the addition of old-vines Reynard) Opaque purple. Explosive, room-filling bouquet of ripe blue and black fruits, fresh flowers, Asian spices and smoky minerals. Deep, sweet and velvety, with bracing cassis and boysenberry flavors, amazing mineral lift and hefty but fine-grained tannins. Extremely impressive and built to repay extended cellaring. (Allemand's 2006s were scheduled to be bottled in early December, two weeks after my visit. I tasted three stunning lots, with the Reynard especially palate-staining, but Allemand had not yet decided how he could combine these three components into two bottlings.)