M. Chapoutier Cornas Saint Pierre 2024 en Primeur

Vibrant in colour, this is showing blueberry and violet aromas. It’s medium-bodied but with quite tight, grippy, grainy tannins. Perhaps it lacks just a bit of concentration compared to some of the domaine’s other Sélection Parcellaires cuvées, and the tannins aren't quite as ripe, but it has well balanced acidity. It might take on weight with maturation, however. These grapes were the last to be harvested, on 4 October, as it's a very windy site. The vines are massale selection from Les Bessards; oldest vines are 25 years old, and it saw 10% whole bunch.