Quote Richard [i]Dunc, Agree with your drinking window. I actually have none left now !!
Just picked up some Noel Verset Cornas 1999 !! Would you leave for another 5 years and try one then ??[/i]
Rich, that is a very important Cornas, 1999 the best vintage for several decades.
Noel Verset is one of the old time traditional growers (gentle pressing, no filtering) personal makers and producers of the region. If you have a lot of them, then I would suggest an assessment to guage the power and structure of this tannic vintage and the beauty of this wine. It is now quite approachable, They say
You've done your research, so I won't bore anyone with the details. I don't think I have drunk a Cornas as highly respected as this one.
For folks here with an interest in steep, hot rocks northern Rhone:
Clearly the wine will go on for a long time, never-the-less, I'd want to check what I had bought. Many tasters of this wine remark about its colour and pure expression of syrah , and its traditional elegance. Some of the vines were 100 years old, Verset did his own grafting and much work in the vineyard as a younger man. He bought 3 plots in 1942 and worked until his 80's. The last vintage made by Verset was 2003
You must tell us more, and how you acquired such a beauty. This is an expensive wine, and the vintage is considered the best.
