Domaine Lionnet Cornas 'Pur Granit' 2022

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Domaine Lionnet Cornas 'Pur Granit' 2022From a southeast facing one hectare parcel of selection massale Syrah, planted between 2008 and 2011, in the vineyard of Saint Pierre at 380 meters altitude. The combination of high altitude and pure granite soil (hence the name) yields a taut, racy Cornas of remarkable focus and mineral purity. This offers penetrating spicy aromatics and intense stoniness on the palate, with a sense of real concentration that is remarkable given the vines youth. This

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Larmandier’s Vertus Rosé has always been exemplary

The palate similarly elicits wonder—a dynamic and potent unfurling of lip-smacking minerality

as he states that it improves the wine’s capacity to age

including Gour de Chaulé

a touch of animal and resinous-like tannins that speak of the inclusion of stems (a hallmark of the Levet tradition)

the wine is balanced by notes of crushed rocks and earth that make it a perfect pairing for the traditional charcuterie and soups of the Val d’Aoste

Fermented naturally after a two-day maceration on the skins

It speaks clearly of the terroir and is viscerally expressive of its impeccable fruit of origin

and aging takes place in huge oak botti of 65 to 85 hectoliters capacity

The wine is bottled without filtration after twenty to twenty-four months of “elevage”

and more “analog”—rarely does sparkling wine feel so viscerally connected to its materials of origin while still maintaining such a layered