Thierry Allemand, Cornas Reynard [R], 2020 no20230524 From California's oldest Syrah vines

From California's oldest Syrah vines

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

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

and pear layered over crushed stone

The 2010 vintage is widely considered one of the greatest Piedmont years of the modern era

Thierry Allemand, Cornas Reynard [R], 2020 no20230524 From California's oldest Syrah vinesThierry 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,