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Auguste Clape, Cornas 2015
Domaine Clape
98James Suckling
97Joe Czerwinski
96Josh Raynolds
$1,650.00
In-bond price · duties & taxes calculated at checkout
Bonded provenance
Climate-controlled storage & transit
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Drinking window
2020 · opens
2025–2032 · peak
2040
now
+14 yrs
Can drink, will improve · best from 2025 · will keep to 2040.
Tasting notes
James Suckling · James Suckling · 98
A more floral and perfumed wine than the 2015 Renaissance. Violets add interest to plenty of peppery red plums and wild red berries. Darker berries, graphite and stony notes, too. So much here. The palate arrives in a silky ribbon-like mode, it has a very long core of blackberries, liquorice and spiced plum flavours. Superior definition in the tannin department. A taut finish.
Drink from 2025
Joe Czerwinski · Wine Advocate · 97
Clape’s flagship 2015 Cornas is enormously complex and compelling. Almond skin, cherries, blood and herbal notes all combine on the nose, while on the palate this medium to full-bodied wine is firmly tannic but ripe and balanced, with a rich, velvety and nearly endless finish.
Josh Raynolds · Vinous · 96
Dark purple. Deep-pitched, mineral-accented black and blue fruit liqueur, olive and floral pastille aromas develop peppery spice and cola notes with aeration. Sappy and deeply concentrated on the palate, offering boysenberry, cassis and fruitcake flavors that are sharpened by smoky mineral and cracked pepper flourishes. The mineral note drives the extremely long, energetic finish, and chewy tannins provide shape and solid grip.
Catalog details
Appellation
RegionRhone
Vintage2015
ColorRed
Top Score98 · James Suckling
Format750 ml
SourceMerchant
StorageBonded warehouse