Readers need to get on this young vigneron's bandwagon! - Jeb Dunnuck

'The northern Rhône is on a roll, with incredible vintages in 2009 and 2010, and outstanding vintages in 2011 and 2012' - Jeb Dunnuck, The Wine Advocate, December 2013

Like Burgundy, the northern Rhone has enjoyed a long series of very good vintages, highly unusual in what is a northerly and marginal climate. Those granite slopes have been able to produce to their fullest potential and in 2012 they have made a small amount of very high quality wine. Only sixty miles from the south of Burgundy, they had the same spring with poor flowering and fruit set, giving a small crop of superb fruit. Cornas' and Vincent's grape is Syrah of course and in his hands it gives perfumed and floral wines which transmit the delicacy of fruit and the wild stoniness of the terroir directly into your glass.

We've been talking about Vincent Paris as the coming man for over a decade. He has established a track record in Cornas that installs him as one of the leaders of the appellation. Vincent is a perennial overachiever in vineyard management, as much as he is in the cellar techniques he employs (and cellar building if it comes to that). He acquired his Cornas vineyards in two main tranches, the Granits coming first. He transformed those from vineyards with potential to producers of some very fine and age-worthy wines. La Geynale is a tiny plot of vines on steep slopes with perfect exposure. /CW