Vincent Paris, Cornas La Geynale, 2015 more spirits SKUs and ripe plums

and ripe plums

resulting in a wine of serious presence: dark cherry and black plum

and a mineral tension that builds through the glass

The texture is light

The slate gives the wine its racy

Vincent Paris, Cornas La Geynale, 2015 more spirits SKUs and ripe plumsThis is the apex bottle in Vincent Paris's Cornas lineup, and it carries a real piece of Northern Rhne history. Paris is the nephew of Robert Michel, the old guard Cornas master who retired after the 2006 vintage and left his nephew a single south facing parcel inside the Reynard climat planted to roughly 100 year old Syrah vines: La Geynale. The 2015 vintage in the Northern Rhne was a landmark, deeply concentrated and structured, and many critics