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Domaine Vincent Paris 2009 Cornas  It was a great discovery I found this new producer from the slopes of Cornas a really dirty wine which was pleasant on my palate the other night. Cornas is a french wine Apellation d'Origine controlee in the northern region of France south of Lyon. Is one of the smallest appelations in the Rhone and produces only red wine from Syrah grape. Cornas has a continental climate with a south east facing slopes and shielded from wind called les Mistral into spring times and is the first appelation in the Rhone to be harvest. The soil is mainly granite but a different altitude some clay and sandy soil come up, in fact the vineyards are situated beetween 100 meter to 400 meters above sea level. The sunny sector called the "Quartier de Reynard" which has vines at 300 to 400 meter has a granite soil. It is a small appelation of only 90 hectares. Domaine Vincent Paris is a young guys which under the guide of his uncle Robert Michel started t
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Domaine du Coulet Terrasses du Serres 2009 Cornas France.  Matthieu Barret is the man behind this beautiful dirty Syrah from Cornas the bottom of north Rhone Valley. This wine is like a minimal noise composition from Concrete composition in the early 19th century  something like Pierre Schaeffer or Bernard Parmegiani (for the term musique concrete is the essence of breaking down of the structure production of traditional instrument, harmony,  rhythm, and even music theory itself, in attempt to reconstruct music from the bottom up) The nose is dirty, dusty and earthy goudron dark fruit, black pepper, charcoal and tar with intense minerality long finish and dirty on the palate… A beautiful wine not for everyone in the same line of Allemande and Clape.. Love Cornas.