Thierry Allemand, Cornas Reynard [R], 2020 no20230524 Named for the romance between

Named for the romance between Véronique and Nicolas

Since day one the winemaking has been dead simple: grapes are pressed with an old wooden basket press

From California's oldest Syrah vines

and desert pine

and pear layered over crushed stone

Thierry Allemand, Cornas Reynard [R], 2020 no20230524 Named for the romance betweenThierry 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,