Verset 2022 Cornas, Rhone Valley - Magnum

Emmanuelle Verset made up her mind in high school that she wanted to be a winemaker for her family estate in France’s Northern Rhone. She was a quick study and took over winemaking at the very young age of 24. The Verset name dates back 6 generations in Cornas and it was her great uncle, Noel Verset, that put the region on the map, making some of the most sought after Syrah in France. Emmanuelle, like many younger winemakers, could see that climate change was changing the way they needed to make wine and she quickly began making decisions to accommodate those changes. She also lets the vintage dictate how the wines are made rather than follow some formula, this gives her the freedom to make the wines she wants. This hand produced Syrah from Cornas is still quite young, (decanting should be considered) but is showing deep purple flowering violets, wild earthy notes, hints of dried, cured black olives, underripe blackberries and citrus oil. Good grip in the mouth this is a wine that desperately wants some fatty morsal to land upon. Very limited.