Jean Luc Colombo Cornas Terres Brulees | 2020 | 750ml

About This Wine

Terres Brûlées (burnt earth) is Colombo's traditional Cornas, blended from many plots on the slopes around the family home in Cornas. Its vines average around 30 to 40 years old, and it is aged without new oak to keep the focus on the Syrah.

Colombo's three core Cornas wines are Terres Brûlées, a blend of several plots, and the two single-vineyard bottlings, Les Ruchets and La Louvée. The single vineyards spend about 20 months in oak, around a third of it new.

Jean-Luc Colombo, a Rhône oenologist who opened his consulting practice in Cornas in 1984, bought his first vineyard there in the 1980s, a plot of old Syrah on a granite hill above the village. He is credited with helping revive the reputation of Cornas, and the family now makes wines from across the northern and southern Rhône.

Serving

Decant and serve with grilled lamb, beef or hearty stews.