Dunnuck: “Pure, balanced, fruit-loaded beauty [with] tons of character.”
- 95 pts Wine Advocate95 pts RPWA
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2019 Domaine Durand Empreintes Cornas 750 ml
Retail: $50 | ||
| $44 | 12% off | per bottle |
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An Extraordinary Value in Collectible Cornas
The party’s over with Cornas pricing. The word is out.
Cornas used to be a quiet little eddy of the Northern Rhône where wine lovers could land collectible, ageworthy bargains while prices of Hermitage and Côte-Rôtie—even 10 years ago—routinely blew past $100.
Sadly that looks like where top-scoring Cornas is headed too—unless you know where to go!
The 2019 Domaine Durand Empreintes Cornas is the kind of wine that is becoming a true rarity: an old-vine Syrah with the structure and power to improve decades in bottle, but for well below $50! The 2019 vintage in the Northern Rhône is also a knockout, rated 96 points by Wine Spectator, Wine Enthusiast, and Wine Advocate. We can’t think of a better way to take a position on this vintage than with this wine, which Jeb Dunnuck called a “pure, balanced, fruit-loaded beauty [with] tons of character.”
Eric and Joël Durand own nine-and-a-half hectares in Cornas. They took over the family estate in 1991, and today they farm these vines—all 20 to 30 years of age, situated on near-unworkable hillsides—with precision and care, and it certainly shows in the Empreintes. 2019 was the fifth excellent vintage in a row in the Northern Rhône, on par with the great 2015. It was a warm, dry season, which Joël said resulted in tannic, concentrated reds, where the only challenge “was to preserve some fruit and freshness with alcohols in the high 14s.”
You’ll be thrilled to have this masterful Syrah in your cellar. Give it a five-year rest and watch it embarrass some big-name bottles on the table when it emerges!