Ermitage, L'Ermite, Blanc, 2010

Name: Ermitage, L'Ermite, Blanc
Brand: M.Chapoutier
Price: 2962.33 GBP

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all 2010 2011

justerini & brooks tasting note

A wine of stature and complexity; intense, rich and built on very firm foundations. Perfumed flavours of jasmine, preserved citrus fruit, almond, vanilla and spices, with deep, rocky, mineral notes. Made from a selection of Chapoutier’s oldest Marsanne (some more than 100 years old) situated at the top of the Hermitage Hill behind the chapel, at a place named The Ermite, and planted on poor granitic and shallow soils (gore).

critic reviews

96/100Josh Raynolds,Vinous

(100% marsanne, from ungrafted vines, many of which reportedly pre-date phylloxera): Vivid gold. Explosive, mineral-drenched aromas of nectarine, poached pear, honey and anise, with a smoky overtone. Completely coats the palate with deeply concentrated orchard and pit fruit flavors and picks up bright chalk and floral nuances with air. As much a solid as a liquid, and yet the wine shows an uncanny litheness and precision. Finishes sappy, incisive and relentlessly long, leaving iodine, pear and floral notes behind, eventually.

date of review 03/2013