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2022 Mickael Bourg Cornas Les P'tits Bouts #271730760
750ml
6x 750ml
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24+ In Stock
Our Notes
If you love the wines of Thierry Allemand and miss the days when Cornas like Chaillot or Reynard regularly in the rotation, this wine should be on your radar immediately. Mickael Bourg's Cornas Les P'tits Bouts continues to be one of the most convincing Allemand-adjacent wines we know, and at a price point that simply hasn’t caught up yet. We have been selling Bourg's wines for several vintages, and each year the precision, confidence, and sheer drinkability continue to sharpen. This is Cornas that delivers the depth and savor you want, but with a lacy, supple texture that makes it impossible to put down. The comparisons to Allemand are not hyperbole. Bourg farms organically, works with whole clusters, and keeps cellar intervention to a minimum. More telling still, Thierry Allemand himself sent his son Theo to intern with Mika, a quiet but meaningful endorsement from Cornas royalty. Bourg also trained with Guillaume Gilles and Matthieu Barret, who originally leased him vines, and today he works just under two hectares across Saint Pierre, Chaillot, and Les Mezards. Small holdings, serious pedigree. The 2022 Les P'tits Bouts shows everything we look for here: blue and black fruit, pressed violets, savory meat smoke, crushed rock, and that unmistakable Cornas grip, all delivered with freshness and restraint (12.8% abv!). It is powerful without being heavy, expressive without being showy, and dangerously easy to drink. Give it a short decant or a year in the cellar, and it will reward you handsomely.
Reviews 93 points Vinous "Using Syrah grapes from the Saint-Pierre lieu-dit at 380 meters in elevation, the 2022 Cornas checks in at a mere 12.8% alcohol. Pressed violet, black cherry, black plum, rose petal and a stemmy touch all come alive in the glass. Hitting the medium-bodied palate with significant flavor concentration, the 2022 is a ripe and refined Cornas with freshness and class. Give it one more year in bottle."
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About Mickael Bourg
An excerpt from 6/1/22 Offer: An Allemand Ringer at 2010 Allemand Pricing
It's no secret that the wines of Thierry Allemand, the king of Cornas, are expensive and exceedingly difficult to source these days. Such is the case with many of our favorite producers, but today we have an absolute dead ringer to satiate those Allemand cravings - the 2018 Mickael Bourg Cornas Les P'tits Bouts.
We've been selling Mika's wines for several vintages now, and the quality, especially in 2018, has reached the point of superstar status. I've personally popped a number of bottles, and they have all been consistently show-stopping. The fruit is intense blueberry/black cherry, with a lacy, chewy texture on top of a hint of meat smoke and volcanic rock. With a slight chill, there are few wines I'd rather reach for right now if I'm thinking BBQ.
The parallel to Thierry Allemand is not entirely out of left field. A few years ago, I was in Cornas at a dinner with Theo Allemand (Thierry's son), who at the time was working for Mika Bourg. Theo said he wanted to get experience working with a vigneron other than his dad, so Thierry recommended he work for Mika because he felt Mika was one of the most talented vignerons in Cornas.
Mika originally leased vines from Matthieu Barret, with whom he previously worked, but has since acquired 1.5 hectares across Les Mezards, Chaillot and Saint Pierre. All farming is organic and in the cellar, his fermentations are whole cluster, with no additions.
These are wines that are first and foremost, delicious and crushable - they just so happen to be natural leaning, just like Allemand.