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2006 Franck Balthazar Cornas Chaillot
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2006 Franck Balthazar Cornas Chaillot

Producer: Franck Balthazar
Style: Red Wine
Grape Type: Syrah/Shiraz
Origin: France
Region: Rhone
Appellation: Cornas

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92 Points | International Wine Cellar , January/February 2009

($55) Ruby-red. Spicy red berry aromas are complicated by rose, violet, smoked meat and anise. Understated and precise, with sweet red and dark berry flavors, silky texture and slow-building tannins. A tangy note of redcurrant lingers on the long, clean finish. This wine displays the elegance of a top-notch Cote-Rotie. Balthazar raises his wine completely in demi-muids, none of them new, and bottles without fining or filtration. (Willette Wines, New York, NY)

91 Points | Wine Spectator

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While the grape is currently grown throughout the world, the most elegant Syrahs still come from the Northern Rhone valley, particularly the appellations of Côte Rôtie, Cornas, and Hermitage. Here, steep, terraced vineyards help produce full-bodied, intense, tannic wines loaded with white pepper and red fruit. In the vineyard, Syrah is largely cooperative- vines are productive, but not overly vigorous. Skins are thick, helping the grape...
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