2022 Cornas Chaillot, Franck Balthazar

2022 Cornas Chaillot, Franck Balthazar

This is the pinnacle of the Balthazar cellar - a Cornas that defines Franck’s style for making complex and ethereal Cornas from old vine fruit, vinifying with 100% whole bunch. It shows impressive tension, with a superbly long, silky finish. This is Cornas at its very best.

Critic score
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Wine details

  • Region & country
    Le Chaillot, Cornas, Northern Rhône, Rhône, France
  • Grape
    Shiraz/Syrah
  • Maturity
    Young 2027 - 2036info
  • Colour
    Red
  • Sweetness
    Dry
  • Style
    Still
  • Unit Volume
    Bottle (75cl.)
  • ABV
    13%

Tasting notes

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.

Matt Walls, Decanter (November 2023)
97/100

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