Guillaume Gilles Cornas 2021

From importer's website: "This is the grand wine of this tiny domaine. The vines are situation on the higher slopes of the Chaillot vineyard. The “terroir” is more complex here with a mixture of soil types and expositions. There are terraces of pure granite that are oriented east – southeast; then, these are supplemented by terraces that sit on a clay-limestone base that have a full southern exposure. The grapes are never destemmed, the cuvaison is long (30 days) and the élevage is in demi-muids for eighteen months. As with the other wines of the domaine, this wine is neither fined nor filtered. Guillaume’s Cornas is unfailingly expressive, deep, pow- erful, and spicy, humming with terroir and easily rivaling the greatest creations of the appellations old masters."