Julien Pilon
l'Élégance du Caillou Millésime Cornas Syrah
Cornas, Northern Rhône, Rhône, France
the wines is a bit anonymous, boring, this is ok.
the wines is a bit anonymous, boring, this is ok.
Jul 19th, 2023
Love where this is headed. Its shed some baby fat, tertiary characters starting to push forward, but it’s still a silken and juicy Cornas thats hard to put down. The smokey meat and olive balancing nicely with the soaked fruit.
Love where this is headed. Its shed some baby fat, tertiary characters starting to push forward, but it’s still a silken and juicy Cornas thats hard to put down. The smokey meat and olive balancing nicely with the soaked fruit.
Mar 14th, 2023Gorgeous! Deeply hued, concentrated, ripe blackberry, crushed violet, baked stones, earth and underlying meaty tones. Plenty of sweet fruit and plush tannin here, mouth filling yet suave, considerable silkiness given its Cornas. Well done.
Gorgeous! Deeply hued, concentrated, ripe blackberry, crushed violet, baked stones, earth and underlying meaty tones. Plenty of sweet fruit and plush tannin here, mouth filling yet suave, considerable silkiness given its Cornas. Well done.
Feb 8th, 2019
2017 vintage. Call back in a half-decade. 8.21.24.
2017 vintage. Call back in a half-decade. 8.21.24.
Aug 21st, 2024
This is the first Cornas I have ever truly enjoyed. Still has the iron and leather and herbs, but for once there is fruit - beautiful, deep, dense red fruit, with dark plum skin accents - to balance the structure. And actually the structure is nicely balanced. This is what I used to think of as a contradiction in terms: an elegant Cornas.
This is the first Cornas I have ever truly enjoyed. Still has the iron and leather and herbs, but for once there is fruit - beautiful, deep, dense red fruit, with dark plum skin accents - to balance the structure. And actually the structure is nicely balanced. This is what I used to think of as a contradiction in terms: an elegant Cornas.
Dec 28th, 2016