A smaller production release that comes from three separate parcels and 100-year-old vines, the 2012 Cornas Vin Noir is aged all in older barrels. Inky purple/black in color, it exhibits awesome notes of cassis, burning embers, saddle leather and that powdered rock-like minerality that you only find in wines from granite soils. Full-bodied, voluptuously textured and even decadent, yet still pure, focused and precise, this blockbuster Cornas will have two decades of longevity.