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| Community Tasting Notes (average 92 pts. and median of 93 pts. in 200 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Rani on 5/18/2024 & rated 85 points: Tasted blind. Over the hill, disjointed and lacking structure. (59 views) | | | Tasted by Claret & CdP Gang on 4/23/2024: At a Rhone wine theme dinner with friends, served blind, opened for an hour before drinking, the oldest wine tonight, most guessed a Northern Rhone from the 90s, some got the maker right, lovely mature Syrah (297 views) | | | Tasted by AURUM on 12/31/2023: No scores taken. In perfect condition. Great wine where balance sumarized the impression. (817 views) | | | Tasted by KenK on 11/11/2023 & rated 92 points: Showed quite well with dark ripe earthy blackberry notes, sage and nice fruit weight. Smooth and elegant with some light bright notes. This drank quite well and is in a very good place. Pixca lunch. (1114 views) | | | Tasted by bacchus of knockholt on 2/12/2023 & rated 89 points: Blackcurrant and violets and a sweet fragrance. The palate is medium body with a fresh black fruit flavour but not giving me much more. It still has tannic grip and acidity which suggests further life. However, given its age and its cost I expected more. (2332 views) | | | Tasted by Claret & CdP Gang on 1/27/2023: Served blind, slow oxed for 2 hour, most guessed 90s Rhone, beautiful wine, in a lovely spot (2254 views) | | | Tasted by Goldstone on 11/30/2022 & rated 93 points: 'Le Lievre a la Royale' Long Lunch (cafe EPURE, Shop 403, inside Epure, Level 4, Ocean Centre, Harbour City, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong): Briefly decanted. Dense, slightly clouded red plums colour. Nose is absolutely gorgeous and alluring…plums, anthracite, perfumed hints of dried Indonesian black spices, cherry wood smoke. Palate is a lovely complementarity of deep velvet and brightly acidic confit black and red plum fruit. Very heady without being blunt…. gosh. Takes me close to reveries. 93-94 easy. Thanks, Eric! (2547 views) | | | Tasted by GuWin on 10/25/2022 & rated 92 points: BYO Centropa (Centropa, Oslo, Norway): Dyp mørk rød farge med moden kant. Dyp mørk duft også, med et jordlig modent preg og svake røyktoner. Sødmefull moden frukt med røde og mørke bær samt jordlige toner og et svakt eikepreg. Godt utviklet med god struktur og middels dybde og konsentrasjon. Denne virker fullmoden nå. (2315 views) | | | Tasted by bbq_grandcru on 10/16/2022 & rated 90 points: Browning robe, light body. Dried plums, prunes and apricots on the nose and palate, with some faint liqueur characteristics. Slightly tight and disjointed on the mid palate. Decent but not great finish. (2013 views) | | | Tasted by Racer117 on 10/7/2022 & rated 90 points: A good bottle of wine, but not great. Plenty of complexity (meat juices, black pepper, spices) and red fruit. Nice balance and integration but nothing Wow! And I do believe a Jboulet Hermitage should be bringing the Wow! (1144 views) | | | Tasted by Claret & CdP Gang on 9/16/2022 & rated 94 points: Medium red with bricking, stunning nose, leather, cherries, soil, beautifully balanced with soft tannins, drinking well with upside potential, excellent Syrah
94+ (1257 views) | | | Tasted by Donjcorleone on 7/30/2022 & rated 93 points: Wonderfully nuanced aromas of dark red berries, earth, leather and tobacco that lead to a perfectly balanced, red fruited and forest floor driven palate with a lingering pepper note that emerges on the finish. (1411 views) | | | Tasted by bucktooth22 on 6/10/2022 & rated 95 points: No decant. Dark ruby, long legs, on the 👃 beautiful balance of light leather, graphite, cherries, cinnamon, light cigar box, morning wet forest floor. Very dry, light to medium body, medium frontal tannins after 21 years!, medium throat burn acidity with light silky cherry finish. Drink it now. Still good. (1496 views) | | | Tasted by nicholswfu on 3/11/2022 & rated 95 points: Based on other reviews I saw, I was concerned that this wine would be past its prime. Our bottle was at its peak. Bright with balanced fruit, tannins and acidity. Long finish. Leather, spice box, faint hint of smoke, dark red fruit. Paired with Tri-tip steak. (1842 views) | | | Tasted by AllRed on 9/25/2021 & rated 90 points: 4th Saturday Brown Bagger (M&R's): Double blind. Showing some age with a lot of bricking. Loads of sediment, and I was the 2nd to pour- clearly this should have been decanted in advance of the tasting. Opens with a note of bouillon followed by candied black currant fruit. Noticeable acidity on the palate, with flavors of cherry, raspberry and candied rhubarb. Develops a nice herbal note with air, and the bouillon quality disappears. Turns more red-fruited than black, and picks up a good bit of spice too, getting better as it sat. Guessed old Chateauneuf-du-Pape. (R&D) (2798 views) | | | Tasted by bucktooth22 on 7/6/2021 & rated 91 points: Tasted on top of a hill in Hermitage in a plastic cup, served with a kebab sandwich. It was amazing but did not take good notes. At least 91 points. (1271 views) | | | Tasted by Poisey on 6/26/2021 & rated 92 points: Really elegant and on the lien side. Fresh with ample acidity. Subtle notes of raisin plumy fruit. A little tar and olive oil notes with fresh herbs and flowers. Great balance and a long finish. Thought it would be more oak influenced but surprisingly well integrated and fresh. Drinking well at the moment with years left. Drink now-2026. (2797 views) | | | Tasted by maxima on 6/17/2021 & rated 92 points: FOUDUVIN-Club de dégustation de l`Estrie- Dégustation DÉCONFINEMENT Juin 2021; 6/16/2021-6/21/2021 (Retaurant AVV La Suite de Sherbrooke): Quel beau nez, textbook Rhone Nord.
Violettes, fumée, fruits noirs et bacon.
En bouche, super élégant. Le côté minéral est vraiment à l`avant-plan.
En bouche, surtout des mures, de la viande fumée avec une côté toasté
Fin et bien dosé. Les tannins sont fins et la finale assez longue
Est sans accroc.
SUBLIME! (3124 views) | | | Tasted by SimonG on 6/12/2021 & rated 95 points: Dinner at B&A (B&A's): Blind. Served quite cool and double decanted a couple of hours previously. Leafy, gravelly note on the nose coupled with some sweeter and quite complex fruit puts me in Bordeaux. Oops. With an hour more air, and a little warmer, the trademark iron and blood notes emerge, and this puts on more weight and richness such that it becomes obvious that it’s HLC, and presumably the 01. This is deep, rich and very giving. A truly excellent wine, and qualitatively right up there with the Chave alongside, only one’s own stylistic preference to separate them. Looking back at notes, consistent with a bottle from the same case four years ago. ***** (2907 views) | | | Tasted by MWiking on 5/11/2021 & rated 92 points: not as good as I had hoped for. This bottle was slightly on its way down the hill but still really good. (2635 views) | | | Tasted by Duncan H on 4/11/2021 & rated 82 points: Ok, but just not tempting enough to go for a second glass... A major disappointment. (2085 views) | | | Tasted by vinhonotte on 3/28/2021 & rated 94 points: Holy Moly BYOB Dinner (Burlamacco Ristorante): Medium ruby, and some brightness. Fairly intense nose with pink floral aromas, and strong cherry that come in waves, pepper, cloves, and a backdrop of peat. Mouthwatering acids, while tannins largely resolved, with flavours of pepper, cherry, cloves, some leather and mushroom, and dried autumn leaves. Long, very complex finish, and kept evolving as we drank. Great wine! (1859 views) | | | Tasted by kingkanu on 1/3/2021: Medium body, bricking eating into the wine. The nose has elegant wafts of Syrah fruit, dark berries and a touch of smoke, there’s decent depth of flavour on the palate, darker fruit but with good freshness, almost fully resolved and ready. An elegant hermitage and better than I expected for the vintage/address (2250 views) | | | Tasted by Ricky99 on 10/5/2020 & rated 94 points: spectacular, with dinner at Jazz Fest Cape May (2643 views) | | | Tasted by winemaker on 9/20/2020 & rated 94 points: Same as last note. Excellent. (2446 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
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Decanter, Tasting 2001 Hermitage 20 years on (10/2/2021)
(Paul Jaboulet Aîné, La Chapelle, Syrah / Shiraz, Hermitage, Rhône, France, Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Jeb Dunnuck
JebDunnuck.com, Up From The Cellar #5 & Misc New Releases (3/27/2019)
(Paul Jaboulet Aine Hermitage La Chapelle Red) Login and sign up and see review text. | By John Gilman
View From the Cellar, Jul/Aug 2013, Issue #46, Recently Tasted Rhône Wines Revisiting One of My Favorite Regions of Yesteryear
(Hermitage “La Chapelle”- Paul Jaboulet Aîné) Login and sign up and see review text. | By Julia Harding, MW
JancisRobinson.com (10/22/2007)
(Paul Jaboulet Ainé, La Chapelle Hermitage Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Jancis Robinson, MW
JancisRobinson.com (9/18/2007)
(Paul Jaboulet Ainé, La Chapelle Hermitage Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Stephen Tanzer
Vinous, January/February 2003, IWC Issue #106
(Paul Jaboulet Aine Hermitage La Chapelle) Subscribe to see review text. |
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- Read about Jaboulet Hermitage and Jaboulet La Chapelle
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Paul Jaboulet Aîné is one of the most prestigious producers in the Rhone, notably in Hermitage and Crozes Hermitage. The earliest record of the Jaboulet family producing wine is from 1834, and the eventual house of Paul Jaboulet Aîné remained in Jaboulet family ownership until 2006. It was then sold to the Frey family, proprieters of Ch La Lagune in Bordeaux, and numerous other vineyards.
Frey obtained the famous brand names such as Hermitage "La Chapelle" and Crozes Hermitage "Domaine de Thalabert", but not all of the vineyards historically used for producing those wines. Notably the vineyard used to produce Crozes Hermitage "Domaine de Thalabert" - a vineyard historically known as Les Grandes Vignes - was split, with part remaining under the control of Philippe & Vincent Jaboulet. Nevertheless Frey succeeded in restoring the reputation of Paul Jaboulet Aîné which had fallen away during the 1990s.
Domaine de Raymond Roure is a 3.5ha Crozes Hermitage vineyard high on the back of the Hermitage hill which Jaboulet acquired in 1996. The red now sells at a premium to Thalabert and is the wine for longer keeping.
Paul Jaboulet Aîné owns parcels of vines in several Rhone appellations both north and south, and produces an extensive range of both estate bottled and négociant wines.Syrah Varietal article (Wikipedia) | (Wines Northwest)
Note that some producers in the Northern Rhone distinguish between simply Syrah and "Serine", the latter described as ‘an ancient clone of Syrah, the berries of which are more oval-shaped and less deeply pigmented than Syrah’ by producer Tardieu-Laurent. France Vins de France (Office National Interprofessionnel des Vins ) | Pages Vins, Directory of French Winegrowers | French Wine (Wikipedia)
Wine Scholar Guild vintage ratings
2018 vintage: "marked by a wet spring, a superb summer and a good harvest"
2019 vintage reports
2021: "From a general standpoint, whether for white, rosé or red wines, 2021 is a year marked by quality in the Rhône Valley Vineyards. Structured, elegant, fresh and fruity will be the main keywords for this new vintage."
2022 harvest: idealwine.info | wine-searcher.comRhône Guide to the wines, wineries and appellations in the Rhone Valley The Rhône Valley/Le Vins de la Vallée du Rhône (Comité Interprofession des vins AOC Côtes et vallée du Rhône)
### Wine Scholar Guild's Rhône valley vintage charts & ratings ###Northern Rhône Guide to the wines and appellations of the Northern Rhone Valley -
The Rhône Valley/Le Vins de la Vallée du Rhône (Comité Interprofession des vins AOC Côtes et vallée du Rhône)
Regional History:
Phocaean Greeks established viticulture in the Rhone as far back as 600 BC, but until the 14th century the wines were not seen outside the region. The establishment of the Avignonese Papacy (1305-1377) brought fame to the region's wine-so much so that their Burgundian neighbors to the north banned wines from the Rhone in 1446, a measure that effectively cut off trade with England and other Northern European markets for over 200 years. Stretching southward from Lyon to just south of Avignon, the Rhone produces a wide variety of wines, with the appellations north of Valence producing the least (in volume), and the towns south of Montelimar producing prodigious amounts. As in other regions, the most interesting wines come from small farms. Saint-Joseph, in the northern Rhone, extends for some distance between Condrieu in the north to Saint-Peray in the south. The reds are made from Syrah and the rare whites from Marsanne and Roussanne, and Viognier.
### 2017 vintage ###
"The first red wines already tasted in the Northern Rhône promise a beautiful vintage, with a quality close to the 2015 or even the 2009 vintage" - NEWRHÔNE MILLESIMESHermitage Guide to Hermitage wine Guide to Cote Rotie - Read about the Northern Rhone Valley
• The appellation stretches over 3 communes in the Drôme "département" : Tain-l'Hermitage, Crozes-Hermitage and Larnage.
• The soils are a combination of granite with alluvial quaternary delta deposits, and, on the eastern side, Pliocene clay. This diversity explains the numerous different names given to vineyard plots within the appellation : Bessards, Greffieux, Méal, Roucoule, Beaumes, etc.
• The meso-climate provides shelter from the north winds, where the majority of the slopes is well exposed, facing south.
•The vineyards area adds up to 134 hectares/331 acres, with an annual production of 3,635 hectoliters. Authorized maximum yield is 40 hectoliters/hectare (2.3 US tons/acres).
• Grape varieties : Syrah (an addition of up to 15% of Marsanne or Roussanne is allowed).
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