1997 | Noel Verset | Cornas

Red Wine: 1997 | Noel Verset | Cornas

A fruit bomb, expansive and rich, bordering on game, violets, ink and blackberry. The structure relies more on tannin than acidity, and it will come to the fore soon.

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Producer: Noel Verset

Vintage: 1997

Size: 750ml

ABV: 12.5%

Varietal: Syrah

Country/Region: France, Rhone

A fruit bomb, expansive and rich, bordering on game, violets, ink and blackberry. The structure relies more on tannin than acidity, and it will come to the fore soon.

Producer Information

Nol Verset, whose perseverance laboring in the steep, granite vineyards of Cornas, in the Rhne Valley of France, helped the Cornas appellation survive to be discovered by a new generation of wine lovers, died on Sept. 11 in Guilherand-Granges, France. He was 95. His death was confirmed by Franck Balthazar, his nephew, who himself grows grapes and makes wine in Cornas. During Mr. Versets 75-year career as a vigneron, Cornas evolved from a little-known backwater to one of the worlds most renowned regions for red wines made from the syrah grape. By the turn of the millennium, his wines, made in tiny quantities, were being celebrated as among the purest expressions of what Cornas had to offer. His wines might very easily have never been discovered. Beginning in the late 19th century, with the arrival of phylloxera, a ravenous aphid that devastated grapevines all over Europe, Cornas faced decades of catastrophe that almost wiped out its vineyards. A solution to phylloxera was found, but many Cornas vineyards, on precipitous slopes first planted 1,000 or more years earlier, were never restored.