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The 2022 Cornas Granit 30 offers savory notes of dried meat, cedar, blackberry, black cherry and a hint of iodine. Medium-bodied and well-structured, the 2022 is lean and elegant. This is a classy Cornas that brims with character. The 2022 will benefit from at least two more years in bottle. Drinking Window: 2027 – 2034

Vineyard: Cuve Granit 30 is made up of two east facing parcels of young vines planted by Paris on the lower slope of lieu-dit Les Mazards. Together the parcels make up 3 hectares of vines which vary in age and rise up to 300 meters of elevation.

Soil:Granite with a bit of clay, gravel, and limestone

Viticulture:Paris farms organically incorporating many biodynamic principles. All vineyard work and harvesting is does manually. In order to concentrate the vines growing power, Paris prunes to only four bunches of grapes per vine and removes many of the bunch’s surrounding leafs to allow for protection again disease. The vines yield approximately 30 hectoliters per hectare.