WTN: 2001 Domaine Auguste Clape Cornas

I've been jogging quite a bit recently, trying to get back into shape. Yesterday I did a half-marathon. To celebrate surviving through that, tonight I opened a nice bottle. A nice dinner of beef and roots and black olives stewed with mediterranean herbs and served with potatoes from the oven. Drunk over the course of the evening (5 hours, we're slow....), it was open from the start but changed much over the time.

• 2001 Domaine Auguste Clape Cornas - France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Cornas (4/25/2006)
  Dark red. A typical Cornas scent of black pepper, bacon fat, red berries and rock. The palate is big, tough and tannic, with fine acidity also. Very nice at first, but I started getting some pruny and raisiny scents the longer it was open.... Has Clape also gone over to the dark side? Or am I just becoming too sensitive to spoofulation?

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I did like this, but I would have hoped (sensitive eyes: look away) for a steaming chunk of turd in my glass: ubi rusticity?

[James Roscoe]

Otto,
Congratulations on the marathon and the wine. The meal sounds great too. I guess we need to get used to a little bit of modernization. (I just can't bring myself to use that word.) It sounds like a wine my wife would have loved and I would have liked, but like you would have found something missing. I might describe it differently however. Keep up the good work.
Cheers!
James

Otto,
Congratulations on the marathon and the wine. The meal sounds great too. I guess we need to get used to a little bit of modernization. (I just can't bring myself to use that word.) It sounds like a wine my wife would have loved and I would have liked, but like you would have found something missing. I might describe it differently however. Keep up the good work.
Cheers!
James

Divide it by half please: I wouldn't have survived a whole. Thanks, though I say it myself it was great. No, we should not get used to modernisation. It sucks, and this wine was just a little too close to that, though staying firmly on the rocky side.

[James Roscoe]

I guess I'm just too much of a capitalist. I'll drink the wine and try not to sweat the details.

[Jenise]

So on the one hand you regret having very few mature bottles, and then you go kill a baby. Picture your mother's voice: "OTTO!!"

No one is lower-tech than Clape. I think the wine must just be shut down right now (which is what I expected when I read the title (4-1/2 year Cornas is not the right time to drink).