"Inky ruby. Vibrant, highly perfumed blue fruit, potpourri and incense aromas display outstanding clarity and pick up exotic spice and smoky mineral notes with aeration. Pure, focused and lively in the mouth, offering appealingly sweet blueberry, cherry preserve and violet pastille flavors that show superb depth and no rough edges. Deepens slowly on the impressively long, energetic finish, which features resonating florality and sneaky, slow-mounting tannins." -Josh Raynolds
Robert Parker
RP93
"More meaty and savory than the younger vintages I tasted, Balthazar's 2016 Cornas Chaillot still shows herbal notes and red currants. Medium to full-bodied, it's firm, chewy and long. Perhaps more classic in style than the 2017 or 2018, it was harvested on September 20, more than a week later than those warmer years." -Joe Czerwinski
Wine Spectator
WS95
"Lively, with brambly grip carrying the core of gently steeped plum and raspberry fruit along, while notes of savory, fresh bay leaf and violet fill in throughout. Shows nice cut through the finish."
