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Cornas Noël Verset 1989

  • Spices
  • Gastronomic wine
  • Wine for ageing
  • Color: Red
  • 12.50% 
  • 0.75L
  • Intensity
  • Full-bodied

Une cuvée qui a tendance à devenir rarissime. Feu Noël Verset a signé une cuvée déconcertante d'équilibre et d'élégance. A garder très précieusement ! More info

  • Quantity: 1 Bottle
  • Level: 1 into-neck
  • Label: 1 slightly marked label, 1 slightly stained label, 1 slightly pushed cork
  • Origin: Private individual
  • Recoverable VAT: No
  • Country/Region: Rhône
  • Appellation/Wine: Cornas
  • Producer/Owner: Noël Verset
  • More information....

Cornas Noël Verset serve at a temperature of 16°C. It will pair perfectly with the following dishes: Parmentier de boudin aux deux pommes, Perdreaux rôtis aux noix et au lard gras, Boeuf Stroganov.

  • Vintage score: 18/20
  • Lot presentation
    Cornas Noël Verset

    The wine

    Produced by Noël Verset, a figurehead of the appellation, this Cornas presents a dark colour that exhales fruit (black berries) and smoky notes. The palate is very round and rich, and the balance between acidity and fullness is perfectly controlled. The tannins are extremely supple and silky. A beautiful cuvée ending with incredible length. As Noël passed away in 2015, this wine is a rare wonder to be guarded jealously.

    Information about domain Noël Verset

    Noël Verset started making wine alongside his father in 1931 when he was 12 years old. He established his own business in 1943, and retired with the 2000 vintage. He sold off his vineyard plots individually, and only to winemakers he respected such as Thierry Allemand, and also transferred parcels to Domaine Clape and Domaine Courbis, and his nephew, Franck Balthazar. He continued making wine, for personal consumption and for his family until 2006 (when he was 87), and also supplied the Rhone's “artisan” négociant Tardieu-Laurent. Noël Verset was one of the appellation's iconic personalities. He was the first winegrower in Cornas to achieve international acclaim and a gifted winemaker who gave his wines a unique style, a style that was known to balance any potential excess in a given vintage. He only ever produced one cuvée, assembled from all his terroirs, which explains the perfect balance in his wines. His winemaking practices were resolutely traditional: low yields, harvesting grapes at full maturity, whole bunches, treading by foot, fermentation in cement vats and 15 months of ageing in old demi-muid barrels. Like Marius Genatz in the Côte-Rôtie and Ernest Trollat in Saint-Joseph, Noël Verset was one of those eminent traditional winemakers who shaped the legend of their appellations.

    Detailed characteristics

    • Quantity: 1 Bottle
    • Level: 1 into-neck
    • Label: 1 slightly marked label, 1 slightly stained label, 1 slightly pushed cork
    • Origin: Private individual
    • Type of cellar: Air-conditioned underground cellar
    • Recoverable VAT: No
    • Original Wooden Case / Original Case: No
    • French customs seal: no
    • Alcohol percentage: 12.50 %
    • Country/Region: Rhône
    • Appellation/Wine: Cornas
    • Producer/Owner: Noël Verset
    • Vintage: 1989
    • Color: Red
    • Service temperature: 16°
    • Viticulture: Environment friendly 
    • Intensity: Full-bodied
    • Dominant aroma: Spices
    • Tasting occasion: Gastronomic wine
    • Grape variety: 100% Syrah
    Cornas Noël Verset
    Cornas Noël Verset

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    Cornas Noël Verset 1989

    iDealwine Price(1) corresponds to the hammer price and the buyer's premium charged by the auctioneer. (1)Bottle format