Auguste Clape's 2023 Saint-Peray weaves mirabelle plums and acacia into a creamy, elegant frame, Marsanne and Roussanne in perfect proportion, with a flinty minerality that carries through to a pure, lingering finish. This is a white wine with the structure to age, but the clarity to drink now.
Winemaker Notes
Mirabelle plums and acacia blossoms are woven into the fabric of this creamy and elegant St.-Peray. Flinty freshness right through the very long, pure finish. Should age really well. A cuvee of 90% marsanne and 10% roussanne. Drink or hold.
Professional Ratings
94
James SucklingTasted: Apr 2025. Mirabelle plums and acacia blossoms are woven into the fabric of this creamy and elegant St.-Peray. Flinty freshness right through the very long, pure finish. Should age really well. A cuvee of 90% marsanne and 10% roussanne. Drink or hold.
90
Jancis Robinson
About the Producer
Cornas is one of the world’s few blue-chip addresses that we still associate with traditional winemaking. For this, we can thank Auguste Clape, the village’s icon, who has demonstrated for more than half a century how to make old school Cornas of beauty, typicity and character. Clape Cornas is the very essence of traditionally made Northern Rhône Syrah, born of the ancient clone, “ la Petite Syrah,” planted in the village ’ s best sites, blended for balance and complexity and allowed to “make itself” as much as possible.
