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Online-Only Auction, 15 - 22 February 2021
Wine Rhône Theme
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About this Item
Located in the Cornas appellation in the northern Rhône, Thierry Allemand started to establish his estate in the 1980s. He did not come from a winemaking family and so he built up his estate by gradually acquiring small plots and plating them with vines. Today his estate covers under 5 hectares and he produces three wines – the Cornas being one of the most expensive in the appellation.
Critics Ratings
‘Densely packed, with tar, olive and maduro tobacco notes up front, holding the massive core of braised fig, plum sauce and tar at bay for now. The muscular finish shows flashes of iron, garrigue and graphite. Very, very long. Best from 2011 through 2024.’ – James Molesworth, Wine Spectator, 96/100 (Feb 2009)
‘(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.)’ – Josh Raynolds, Vinous, 95/100 (Jan 2008)
Provenance
Private Client
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