Description
at a similar quality level
showing off all of its 100+-year-old-vine pedigree
I found the wine as extraordinary as the 2013
and a heady
blackberries and blueberries with toasty oak
Auguste Clape, Cornas 2012 (1.5L) Burgundy Blanc at a similar quality level98 points Robert Parker's Wine Advocate The Cornas of the vintage is Clapes 2012 Cornas. An incredible effort, its inky purple black color is followed by spectacular aromas and flavors of black raspberry, graphite, beef blood, iron, cedar and white pepper (among other things). This is Cornas at its finest, with insane aromatics, full bodied richness and massive concentration, yet at the same time staying elegant, seamless and gorgeously pure. Its more