Jean-Luc Colombo - Cornas Les Ruchets 2018 (750ml)

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Producer	Jean-Luc Colombo
Country	France
Region	Rhone Valley
Subregion	Cornas
Varietal	Syrah
Vintage	2018
Sku	122718
Size	750ml

Jean-Luc Colombo Description

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Winemaker Notes

A superb, deep black cherry color. On the nose, complex and elegant with notes of spices, violets, and black fruit and vanilla. On the palate, powerful, structured notes of black fruit, herbs, white pepper and blueberry. Delicious with game such as duck, hare, or pigeon, but also perfect with a roasted entrecote steak.

Professional Ratings

96Wine Enthusiast
This inky, intensely plummy Syrah balances rich, pulsating black-fruit flavors against lip-smacking cassis and accents of tapenade, charcuterie and blood. Sourced from 90-year-old vines and aged 22 months in oak (15% new), the penetrating wine is framed by fine, firm tannins and lingering notes of vanilla, chocolate and earth. Drink 2023–2040.
94Wine Spectator

Nicely packed, with a mix of dark currant and blackberry compote notes that are still coiled up, along with bay, dark olive and racy sanguine flavors. Persistent and focused on the finish, with plenty in reserve. Best from 2023.

94Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Maybe a touch more concentrated than Colombo's la Louvée bottling but also having a slightly coarser, more open-knit texture, the 2018 Cornas les Ruchets leads off with hints of mint, fennel, crushed stone and blackberries. It's full-bodied and rich, expansive and generous without crossing over into being jammy, with savory notes of black olives and roast meat to balance out the ripe fruit and a lingering, softly tannic finish.
94Wine & Spirits
Laure Colombo now works with her father, Jean-Luc, to make the wines at this Cornas estate. Les Ruchets remains the family’s flagship wine, from a steep, 5.4-acre plot of 90-year-old vines. She’s kept the house style clean and fruit-forward, working with destemmed berries fermented in stainless-steel tanks, but she’s pulled back on the new oak for aging, so that it’s easier to taste the quality of the fruit on release. That quality is clear in this 2018, which brims with a mix of fruit, florals and herbal notes that makes it feel wild and fresh. The flavors run deep but stay firm, trimmed by fine-grained tannins and bright acidity. As W&S editor Corey Warren said, “it’s complex and convincing right out of the bottle,” and it’s sure to become even more so with time in the cellar.
91Decanter

Very deep and intense. Ample blackberry and autumnal hedgerow fruit and creamy, ripe tannins. Powerful and imposing.