Cornas Saint Pierre, Domaine Paul Jaboulet Aine 2009

Young readers, or those with good longevity genes, should check out the enormous, backward, foreboding, black/purple-colored 2009 Cornas Domaine de St.-Pierre. A classic Cornas, it offers up scents of beef blood, charcuterie, blackberries, new saddle leather, pepper and smoked game, mouthsearing levels of tannin and huge extract. It reminds me of some of the old Noel Verset Cornas made in the 1970s and early 1980s. Don't dare think about drinking it until it has reached age ten. It should age effortlessly for 25-30 years or more.