A&E Verset, Cornas, 2023 SO031226 Filliatreau captures fresh strawberries

captures fresh strawberries

gravelly soil and vines 50 to 60 years old (the name itself nods to gravel)

Delicate and refined

crème brûlée

and the name (French for 'reprieve') is a wink at the whole situation

A&E Verset, Cornas, 2023 SO031226 Filliatreau captures fresh strawberriesCornas from a sixth generation vigneronne carrying one of the appellation's most legendary names into a new era. Emmanuelle Verset is one of only two women running a domaine in Cornas, and she farms inherited plots of ancient vines in storied sites like Champelrose, Les Mazards, and Reynard, with an average vine age around 60 years and some over a century old. The granite hillsides here, baked by Northern Rhone sun, give Syrah extraordinary intensity,