In the glass
Aroma: black olive, smoked meat, wild herbs, dark plum, granite
Palate: concentrated black fruit, iron mineral, rustic leather, firm tannins, long
Chapoutier's Cornas from the Les Arenes parcel on granite. Biodynamically farmed old Syrah with the smoky, iron-edged character that defines Cornas AOC.
What it pairs with
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Grilled lamb sausage with tapenade
Black olive and smoked meat in the wine resonate with grilled lamb and tapenade. -
Braised wild duck
Game bird with rich sauce needs the wine's iron mineral backbone. -
Aged sheep's cheese
The wine's rustic tannins are softened by crystalline sheep's-milk cheese.
History
Les Arenes is Chapoutier's single-parcel Cornas from the granite terraces of the village. Biodynamically farmed, it represents the house's interpretation of Cornas' historic granite-terroir character.
- 1991 — First vintage of Les Arenes as Chapoutier's Cornas AOC selection
Facts
- Producer
- M. Chapoutier
- Grapes
- Syrah (100%)
- Classification
- Cornas AOC
- Oak
- 18 months in used French oak demi-muids
- ABV
- 13.5%
- Price
- EUR 55-80 at retail
- Drinking window
- 6-18 from vintage
- First vintage
- 1991
- Biodynamic
- Demeter Certified
- Organic
- ECOCERT