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Caves Yves Cuilleron Cornas Lieu-dit la Cote Les Cotes 2017

Silky and intense from start to finish

Syrah (Shiraz)

$184.00

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Black Fruit, Herbal, and Pepper / Spice,

BODY: Medium +
DRYNESS: Dry
ACIDITY: Medium
TANNIN: Medium +
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Origin: Rhone Valley (Chateauneuf du Pape, Cote Rotie & More), France

Grape Varietals:
Syrah (Shiraz)

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WESTERN FOOD PAIRING
rack of lamb, ribs, grilled game or poultry.

ASIAN FOOD PAIRING
Satay, bbq chicken

Cave Yves Cuilleron

Yves represents the 4th generation of Cuilleron vignerons although he initially trained as a engineer. The lure of the vine proved too hard to resist and after a year's training at the Ecole Viticole in Macon he took over the vineyards in 1987.

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Domaine Yves Cuilleron Cornas Lieu-Dit Les Côtes 2017

Domaine Yves Cuilleron Cornas Lieu-Dit Les Côtes is a wine for keeping. A little austere and hard in its youth, it becomes remarkably intense yet silky after a few years.
A silky and elegantly scented Cornas. Attractive aromas of sun-kissed dark berries, black cherry, aromatic herbs and roasted coffee beans. Fleshy, dense and velvety full-bodied palate with a bright acidity and well-integrated tannins that mellow with time. Juicy blackberry, black cherry, cassis and blueberry flavours with a hint of cinnamon, liquorice, black olives and pepper. Closes with a mineral and sweet spice finish.

Les Côtes is a lieu-dit in the south of the commune of Cornas. It is made up of a very hard granite rock base that is over 600 million years old.

100% Syrah. A single plot and single varietal Syrah wine. These vines were planted in 1911 on a plot located in a majestic amphitheatre in Cornas, making them more than a century old. The grapes are grown according to the principles of sustainable agriculture.

Manual harvesting of the grapes, then partial destemming and crushing.Maceration on skins lasts 3 weeks, during which alcoholic fermentation takes place in the presence of native yeasts. At the end of maceration, the must is racked in oak barrels for 18 months of ageing, during which malolactic fermentation takes place. Finally, the wine goes through fining before bottling.

Elegant & Structured Reds

From Barolo to Bordeaux, these wines are steeped in tradition. The style covers a broad spectrum of flavor profiles, but tend to be elegant and structured and can be cellared for a long time.

These wines often have savoury tones of earth, bell pepper, tobacco, cassis, and are often medium to full bodied, with long finish & structured palattes