Franck Balthazar Cornas 'Chaillot'
- Red
- France
- Cornas
- Shiraz/Syrah
- Tracked vintages
- 17
- Community notes
- 218
- Merchant offers
- 36
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 95/ 1002022 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 87/ 100218 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £67per 75 cl2020 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2024
- Drinking window
- 2025–2034drinking2017 · nearest vintage with a window
Flavour and structure
What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.
Structure from 21 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Northern Rhône Cornas.
- Body4.7 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.5 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.3 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.5 / 5
- DrySweet
- Black fruit · blackberry, plum, blueberry, blackcurrant, black fruit
- Earth · earthy, leather, smoke, forest floor, minerals
- Spice · pepper, licorice, thyme, white pepper, eucalyptus
- Oak · oak, cedar, tobacco, chocolate, clove
- Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, strawberry, wild strawberry
- Floral · violet, perfume
Grapes: Shiraz/Syrah. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
2013One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2020
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
- 2023unit not stated
- 202295criticunit not stated
- 202196criticunit not stated
- 202097critic£67 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2024
- 201996critic£55 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2022
- 201895critic£106 / 75cl12-bottle shop ask, September 2026
- 201795critic
- 201695critic
- 201596critic
- 201493critic
- 201393critic£22 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, August 2016
- 201293critic
- 201094critic
- 200790drinkers
- 200690drinkers
- 200589drinkers
- 200489drinkers
- Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
- Drinkinginside its stated window
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2020
- 97 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2015
- peak, window 2024–2032
- Lowest price
- 2013
- £22 per 75 cl
Price by vintage
One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.
Solid: a realised in-bond tradeHatched: what a merchant is asking, which nobody has paid
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | £67 | 97 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2024 |
| 2019 | £55 | 96 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2022 |
| 2018 | £106 | 95 | — | per 75cl, from a 12-bottle shop ask, September 2026 |
| 2013 | £22 | 92.8 | Yes | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, August 2016 |
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