{"product_id":"domaine-auguste-clape-cornas-2019","title":"Domaine Auguste Clape Cornas 2019","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAuguste Clape is, by near-universal consensus, the man who defined serious Cornas. In 1957, he became the first producer in the appellation to estate-bottle and export his own wine, rather than sell it off in barrel to négociants like Jaboulet — a decision that single-handedly established what great Cornas could be. Robert Parker called him simply \"the reference point for the appellation,\" and three generations of the family — Auguste, his son Pierre-Marie (who worked alongside his father from 1989), and grandson Olivier — have maintained an unbroken commitment to traditional methods ever since: whole-cluster vinification, ancient head-trained Syrah vines (the old \"Petite Syrah\" clone) sending roots deep into poor granite soil, and ageing entirely in large, neutral old foudres with no new oak whatsoever. The wine is a precise blend of five to six parcels from the appellation's very best lieux-dits — Reynard, La Côte, Sabarotte among them — selected and balanced each vintage to let the fruit and terroir, rather than winemaking technique, do the talking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe result is widely regarded as the benchmark for all serious Syrah, not just Cornas: dark cherry, blueberry, black olive, violet, ground pepper, and smoked game meet an unmistakable iron-mineral edge from the granite beneath the vines. Youthful vintages are famously brooding and introverted, needing real cellar time — a decade or more — to unfurl into the complexity the domaine is celebrated for; Jeb Dunnuck has scored recent vintages as high as 97 points, and Vinous has called certain years \"a fantastic wine from an epic vintage,\" built to impress for decades.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Domaine Auguste Clape","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50556018852005,"sku":"3619397","price":298.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0659\/2597\/2133\/files\/CLAPCORN09_6a876940-1365-47aa-b437-fa7107a9f49c.png?v=1770766745","url":"https:\/\/wine.thestunnedmullet.com.au\/products\/domaine-auguste-clape-cornas-2019","provider":"The Stunned Mullet Wine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}