Maison les Alexandrins

Cornas

Red 2023

Benefiting from its remarkable high-altitude location where it enjoys a cooler climate and the sun's heat, this Cornas is a powerful wine with elegant notes of black fruit.

Granite soil.

Serve at 17°C. This Cornas is wonderfully elegant and can be enjoyed after just two or three years’ cellaring.

This wine will go wonderfully with grilled red meats and game. When aged from 7 to 10 years, it pairs marvellously with hare à la royale.

2023 was a year full of contrasts, which required great composure and the benefit of experience to cope with the vagaries of the weather. The winter was mild, followed by a wet spring and then a summer oscillating between hailstorms and drought, before a complex harvest period, between August 17 and September 20. A permanent risk of rain and capricious weather forecasts indeed required us to constantly adapt our program in order to harvest our grapes, of beautiful quality and well concentrated in sugars, at their optimal phenolic maturity. At the end of the harvest, this painstaking work was more than rewarded: this very special vintage is proving very promising, perfectly balanced on all quality indicators. In the cellar, we are pleasantly surprised by the freshness of the whites. The terroirs resisted the drought well and offer a magnificent balance. The low-temperature fermentations helped to preserve the aromatics. The reds, for their part, required long macerations to extract all the essence of the vintage. The crus from the plain are crisp and delicate, while the wines from the hillsides stand out for their density and the brilliance brought by the granite. The aging period has now begun; the wines will improve and the textures will slowly become more complex in the cool of the cellar.

Located at over 250 metres altitude on terraces containing decomposed granite, the vineyard enjoys a pleasant south/south-east exposure.

- Pre-fermentation cold maceration to develop the fruit.
- Maceration and fermentation for about 20 days with pumping over for the first few days and then punching down towards the end.
- Ageing in barrels of one and two wines for 15 months.

Beautiful deep-red colour with shimmering highlights. Intense, the nose reveals a complex aromatic bouquet with notes of black fruit and spices, such as cade wood and white pepper. Rich and opulent, the palate offers a beautiful density and silky, powerful tannins, typical of the terroir, which will delicately blend over time. Cornas in all its splendor, this powerful and elegant wine requires a few years of aging to reveal its full complexity.