Champelrose 2020 | Cornas | Domaine Courbis

Name: Champelrose 2020 | Cornas | Domaine Courbis
Brand: Domaine Courbis
SKU: 288
Price: 41.45 EUR
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Domaine Courbis, AOP Cornas (Northern Rhône). Multiple parcels across the estate, mostly near the base of the Cornas slope. Limestone and granite soils. 100% Syrah.

3 weeks of vatting. Aged 12 months in barrels (25% new, 20% one year, 55% two to three years), assembled in tank and aged four further months before bottling.

Wine Identification
Champelrose is a red wine produced by Domaine Courbis from the 2020 vintage. It originates from the Cornas appellation in the Northern Rhône region of France.

Origin and Winemaking
The wine is crafted exclusively from Syrah grapes sourced from various parcels within the estate, primarily located at the base of the Cornas slopes. The vineyards sit on soils composed of limestone and granite. Vinification involves a three-week maceration period. Following fermentation, the wine undergoes élevage in oak barrels for twelve months, with no new oak in 2020 according to The Wine Advocate. After blending in vats, the wine rests for an additional four months before bottling.

Tasting Profile
Champelrose presents a full-bodied, dense, and extracted profile characterized by rich tannins. The aromatic palette is dominated by blackberries and licorice. On the palate, it exhibits the appellation’s signature meaty and tarry notes, concluding with a long, velvety finish.

Critical Reception
The Wine Advocate (Parker) awarded this wine a score of 91. The critic describes it as coming from old vines at the bottom of the slope, noting its richness and structure.

Overall Character
Champelrose is a robust expression of Cornas Syrah, defined by its dense texture, significant extraction, and classic Rhône markers such as tar and meatiness, balanced by a smooth finish.

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PARKER: 91

From old vines at the bottom of the slope, Courbis's 2020 Cornas Champelrose sees no new oak in its élevage. Bursting with blackberries and licorice, it's a full-bodied, dense, extracted and richly tannic wine, with plenty of the appellation's meaty, tarry notes and a long, velvety finish.

Learn more about Domaine Courbis

The Courbis family has grown vines in Châteaubourg since the sixteenth century. When Laurent and Dominique took over in the 1980s, the house already had four centuries of farming behind it; their father, Maurice, had been one of those who opened the way in the area.

The domaine covers some forty hectares of hillside across the communes of Glun, Châteaubourg and Cornas: eight in the Cornas appellation, eighteen and a half in red Saint-Joseph and five in white Saint-Joseph, plus Saint-Péray. The soils change with the parcel —granite sandstone where the Syrah goes, limestone at Les Royes— which is what justifies bottling the sites separately.

In Cornas they farm two places that are nothing alike. Les Eygats faces east and south-east at two hundred and fifty metres, planted in 1991. La Sabarotte is a south-east-facing slope with genuinely old vines: they were planted in 1947. Champelrose completes the run of single-site bottlings.

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