creamy and dry Champagne with sliced apples and pears

A more intensely floral-suffused nose reflects an interesting note of pepper on the pretty red currant

The palate manages linear tang and saline

The wine needs a few more years to get out of this more reticent phase

Domaine, Lionnet other_regions creamy and dry Champagne withThe 2022 Cornas Chaillot is especially good, offering up aromas of spices, mulberries, dark cherries and blueberries, followed by a full bodied, layered and concentrated palate that's rather austere and muscular. Introduced in 2020 and skipped in 2021, this wine has quickly earned its place as the crown jewel of Lionnets lineup, offering a remarkable expression of Cornas at its finest. It has a real potential to improve in the cellar.