All you need is Buffy the Vampire Slayer

[Sharon Bowman]

I kept mum during a recent thread on the soulfulness of Paolo Bea's wines, but now I must speak up and throw a similar phenomenon into the ring: the Cornas(es) of Thierry Allemand.

Direct suavity.

Utter soul.

Delight. Depth. Something that moves one with a deep seismic force.

 

[Peter Creasey]

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[Sharon Bowman]

originally posted by Peter Creasey:

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All I can surmise is that Satan refused to let you post.

Be careful what you do with your soul; you could end up trafficking in pictures of food!

 

[Peter Creasey]

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:All I can surmise is that Satan refused to let you post.

Sharon, Apologies! It was my mistake as I was trying to apply the software... apparently erroneously.

. . . . . Pete

 

[Florida Jim]

Sharon,
Call it soul or genius or whatever, I do have a short list of producers that seem to be exceptional in nearly every vintage - exceptional being defined as true to place and variety, bearing character and excellent quality.
Allemand is on it.
And a (very) few others.
Best, Jim

 

[VLM]

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
All you need is AllemandI kept mum during a recent thread on the soulfulness of Paolo Bea's wines, but now I must speak up and throw a similar phenomenon into the ring: the Cornas(es) of Thierry Allemand.

Direct suavity.

Utter soul.

Delight. Depth. Something that moves one with a deep seismic force.

I love Allemand just as much as the next guy, heck, probably more, but Allemand wines don't have soul in the same way.

Almost unparalleled excellence, yes.

 

[Scott Kraft]

I love Allemand just as much as the next guy, heck, probably more, but Allemand wines don't have soul in the same way.

Almost unparalleled excellence, yes.

Further proof that monkeys don't have souls.

 

[VLM]

originally posted by Scott Kraft:

I love Allemand just as much as the next guy, heck, probably more, but Allemand wines don't have soul in the same way.

Almost unparalleled excellence, yes.

Further proof that monkeys don't have souls.

I'm from Baltimore.

 

[Scott Kraft]

I nearly died in Baltimore!

 

[VLM]

originally posted by Scott Kraft:
I nearly died in Baltimore!

Me too!

But I got out with soul.

 

[lars makie]

originally posted by VLM:

originally posted by Scott Kraft:
I nearly died in Baltimore!

Me too!

But I got out with soul.

That's how I feel about Detroit.

 

[Florida Jim]

Nobody gets out of Detroit with soul.
Best, Jim

 

[Charles Weiss]

originally posted by Florida Jim:
Nobody gets out of Detroit with soul.
Best, Jim

You never heard of Motown?

Charles

 

[mlawton]

this is troubling.

 

[MarkS]

A want or a need??

I'd say I don't need another $90 bottle of wine,soul or no soul.

 

[MLipton]

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
All you need is AllemandI kept mum during a recent thread on the soulfulness of Paolo Bea's wines, but now I must speak up and throw a similar phenomenon into the ring: the Cornas(es) of Thierry Allemand.

Direct suavity.

Utter soul.

Delight. Depth. Something that moves one with a deep seismic force.

Interesting. In Cornas, Verset's wines pretty much define(d) soul for me. I never met the elfin source of the wines, but personality they have -- in spades. Maybe because I came to the party late, I haven't had enough of Allemand's wines, and certainly not with the sort of bottle age that most of my most memorable Verset experiences have, so I can't make a similar statement about his wines. FWIW, I have found Allemand's wines much more suave (to co-opt your term) and refined than those animale Cornas of my past. De gustibus, as always.

Mark Lipton

 

[slaton]

Allemand is probably my favorite producer of Cornas, but when I think of soulful Cornas I'd go with Verset.

I had an astonishly good glass of Emidio Pepe's 2001 montepulciano the other night. That was soul in a glass.

 

[slaton]

Not surprised Mark beat me to the punch; the one opportunity I've had to drink mature Verset was in his company, thanks to Lou's generosity.

 

[Sharon Bowman]

I don't "get" Verset.

 

[VLM]

originally posted by MLipton:

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
All you need is AllemandI kept mum during a recent thread on the soulfulness of Paolo Bea's wines, but now I must speak up and throw a similar phenomenon into the ring: the Cornas(es) of Thierry Allemand.

Direct suavity.

Utter soul.

Delight. Depth. Something that moves one with a deep seismic force.

Interesting. In Cornas, Verset's wines pretty much define(d) soul for me. I never met the elfin source of the wines, but personality they have -- in spades. Maybe because I came to the party late, I haven't had enough of Allemand's wines, and certainly not with the sort of bottle age that most of my most memorable Verset experiences have, so I can't make a similar statement about his wines. FWIW, I have found Allemand's wines much more suave (to co-opt your term) and refined than those animale Cornas of my past. De gustibus, as always.

Mark Lipton

I don't think Cornas needs to be as old as people think it needs to be.

1994 Allemand is killer right now. My 1991 is gone. That was the first vintage, IIRC.

Sharon, what vintage was it?