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95 Points - Jeb Dunnauck - The Wine Advocate - "Much more southern Rhone-like in style, the 2009 Abelard is a blend of 85% Grenache and 15% Syrah that spent 18 months in barrel. Big, ripe, layered and hedonistic, with tons of sweet Grenache blackberry and

“This wine, feral and exciting, issues from an old vines parcel on the flats in Cornas. The soil is sand and clay overlain with large “galet” stones. The vinification is the same as is used for the more prestigious wines of the cellar. Best described as a

"Fleshy, strong and very elegant. This wine reflects its terroir of slopely schist facing south on the left bank of the Rhône. During the Roman era, this area used to produce the reputed wines of Terres de Viennae."