Domaine Alain Voge

The decomposed granite slopes of Les Mazards, rather alarmingly known locally as ‘gore’, are the source of this famous cuvée. Twenty-five percent of stems are added to the vat for a cuvaison of four weeks, then 24 months in cask, 20 percent of which are new. There is no Vieilles Fontaines this year, so all the grapes have gone into the Vieilles Vignes, which repays the compliment and is suitably magisterial and complex. Fresh and yet imperiously powerful, this wine will be one for the long, longer and longest terms.
Simon Field MW - Rhône Buyer

Albéric Mazoyer, the charismatic sidekick to Alain Voge, is positive about 2013: there was no hail in Cornas and the late growing cycle was actually beneficial in this, the warmest of the northern enclaves, concentrating flavour but eschewing excess of any kind. The results are as spectacular as the volumes are scant.

Aged for 20 months and the fruit of suitably old vines, mainly from the lieux-dits of Mazard and La Côte, this is an outstanding wine. Traditional in its saturnine flavour profile, autumnal and profound, yet forward-looking in its structure; its architectural integrity presages a more than satisfactory evolution. Drink 2022-2030+.
Simon Field MW, Wine Buyer