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Franck Balthazar, Cornas, Chaillot 2022
Domaine Balthazar
97Matt Walls
95Wine Advocate
95Yohan Castaing
$1,134.00
In-bond price · duties & taxes calculated at checkout
Bonded provenance
Climate-controlled storage & transit
Complimentary express shipping
Drinking window
2027 · opens
2030–2035 · peak
2040
now
+14 yrs
Not ready · best from 2030 · will keep to 2040.
Tasting notes
Matt Walls · Decanter · 97
Aromatically quite reductive when tasted, but on the palate this is very promising, with surprisingly rounded and succulent tannins for a 2022. Long, direct, fresh and focused, this is the most powerful of Franck Balthazar's Cornas this year. From a parcel of vines over 100 years old in lieu-dit Chaillots that previously belonged to Noël Verset.
Drink 2027 - 2035
Yohan Castaing · Wine Advocate · 95
The 2022 Cornas Chaillot is a brilliant showcase of Franck Balthazar’s capabilities. Revealing a dense, complex bouquet of dark wild berries, mulberries, blueberries, spices and flowers, it's full-bodied, dense and ample, seamless and layered with a racy character, capturing the energetic qualities of this prime hillside terroir to perfection and concluding with a long, saline finish. It's the king of the cellar that will improve with time in the cellar.
Catalog details
Appellation
RegionRhone
Vintage2022
ColorRed
Top Score97 · Matt Walls
Format750 ml
SourceMerchant
StorageBonded warehouse