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Community Tasting Notes 118
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Ernestas Likes this wine: 92 points
February 15, 2024 - Hot vintage crafted a well balanced, concentrated and enduring Hermitage. Farmed from 30+ year old vines, aged for 36 months in oak barrels, 50% new. Deep garnet, ruby hue. Intense rich aroma of smoky plums and black cherries, black pepper, earth, tobacco, cold cuts, potpourri, with time violets emerge. Medium+ body, an open and generous filled with silky elegance, fully integrated refined high tannins and high acidity. Smoky violets and earthy black fruit flavours, touches of chocolate, salinity, long finish.
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Bonesetter Likes this wine: 88 points
November 23, 2023 - I suspect the product of a hot vintage, and a producer chasing Parker points. Was okay, but the fruit seemed rather more "cooked" than "crisp". Drink now, no point in waiting.
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felixp Likes this wine: 94 points
October 29, 2023 - drinking perfectly. Black fruits, quite floral, and huge length.
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prism wrote:
October 20, 2023 - Probably as bad as my first bottle. Could possibly be imbibed, but for me it was a straight-down-the-drain bottle, the second of two.
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cwiebe Likes this wine: 94 points
April 9, 2023 - Amazingly primal at 20 years out. This bottle could have gone another 10 years easily. Very pronounced black fruit and spice. Multi-layered with a long finish.
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By Josh Raynolds
January/February 2008, IWC Issue #136 (link)(E. Guigal Hermitage) Subscribe to see review text.
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By David Vogels, CWP
June 2008 (link)(E. Guigal Hermitage) Garnet with a brownish rim. Aromas of smoky bacon, forest floor, leather, garrigue, and white pepper, with redcurrant and blackberry fruit in the background. Smooth texture, demonstrating well-integrated tannins and acidity. Complex finish emphasizes the earthy minerality. Terroir: Hermitage
Wine Definition
- Vintage 2003
- Type Red
- Producer E. Guigal
- Varietal Syrah
- Designation n/a
- Vineyard n/a
- Country France
- Region Rhône
- SubRegion Northern Rhône
- Appellation Hermitage
- UPC Code 790559201002
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 2 (0%)
- In Cellars 881 (55%)
- Consumed 731 (45%)
Food Pairing
Community Recommendations
Lamb shank with white beans, White TruffleWho Likes This Wine
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- Wine2003 E. Guigal Hermitage (add)
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- ProducerE. Guigal
- VarietalSyrah
- CountryFrance
- RegionRhône
- SubRegionNorthern Rhône
- AppellationHermitage