Life is too short to drink bad wine

I attended a wine tasting in Oslo this week and had the pleasure of participating to a tasting of different Rhone wines. Bordeaux and Burgundy are getting increasingly expensive and Rhone is perhaps one place to look for good values. The Syrah grape are the star grape in this region reds and it must be said that the most prestigious wines from Hermitage, Cote Rotie and Cornas are quite pricy too. St.Joseph and Crozes Hermitage are thus the more reasonable choices. Cornas is dense dark red wine with lots of dark fruit which requires both time and food to excel. This one by one of the new guys in Cornas, Guillaume Gilles, is a big full bodied red   packed with massive approachable tannins and a nice minerality. The nose is very clean and elegant. Guillaume owns 2 hectare in the Chaillot part of Cornas and started in 2008. His wines are honest with a great concentration. The 2012 is probably best in 3-5 years but if you want to drink it now it's probably best to decant it upfr...

Looking for a deep dark red wine with lots of muscles? Look no further, this Cornas (Rhone) has it all and all you require is an entrecote or pepper steak to control the wine. The colour is deep dark red with purple rim. On the nose there is a solid attack of pepper and dark fruit! Unmistakable for a solid Syrah! The taste is supersolid with lots of dark fruit, plenty of energy, bit of pepper and spice...sort of dying for food. Surely no meditation wine. It's screaming for foooood... Cornas "Chante-Perdrix" 2012 Delas Ca 330 NOK or 30€...a bit pricy for Cornas

This bottle bought at BBR in London taught me two things: The Syrah grape in Rhone and the way it is used in St.Joseph and Cornas give really dark red wines filled with dark fruit and pepper. So the name on this wine "Vin Noir" is just perfect because thats what this is, it is a really dark wine screaming for some red meat or game. Secondly, there is light in the tunnel. What a funny name for a domaine! This dense fruity peppery wine can last a few more years without any problems as well. Ca 35£. Cornas 2007 "Domaine du Tunnel" by Stephane Robert "Adele- Rolling In The Deep"