Thierry Allemand, Cornas Reynard [R], 2020 no20230524 an American who moved to

an American who moved to the Langhe in 2011 and has worked at several historic Langhe estates including Bartolo Mascarello (alongside Maria Teresa Mascarello)

and the perfect bridge between still wine and champagne

and desert pine

and these old vines deliver great concentration with smooth

Thierry Allemand, Cornas Reynard [R], 2020 no20230524 an American who moved toThierry Allemand didn't inherit Cornas he rebuilt it, buying up scraps of abandoned terrace in the 1980s and restacking the granite walls by hand while the appellation was still an afterthought. Reynard is the summit of that work: a steep, southeast facing granite cru planted to ancient Syrah, some of it well over a century old, farmed with an obsessiveness that borders on the monastic. The winemaking is famously plain 100% Syrah, whole clusters,