Travel Guide Cornas

AOC cornas more cornas than the village of the same name! It is a charming village with 2 300 inhabitants, bathed by the Rhône. Cornas means «scorched land», saying if the sun is to make the fruits of the land grow. From reliable sources, Charlemagne, Saint Louis and Louis XV were already familiar with Cornas's wine. It is said that Charlemagne would have tasted the beverage in 804. But the first documents that attest to the local vineyard date back to 1643. And, in 1763, the village priest wrote that the country's hills are filled with vines and that the wine produced is black. Today, some wine growers share the hundred hectares of the appellation. " Cornas "is a single village, a single vine (Syrah), a single land…