Community Tasting Notes 11

• lozatron Likes this wine:

  May 5, 2024 - Hermitage's Dinner (Noizé): Some bricking - most advanced colour of the flight. A hint of campfire. This wine is more giving - I was educated (somewhat theatrically it must be said) on the more sensual qualities that the Méal vineyard imparts on this way, and I got it entirely. Did it end up seeming a little less refined, a little less precise than its flight mates? Perhaps, but this is an outstanding wine.

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• melvinyeowq wrote:

  December 26, 2022 - Boxing day wines at Empire: My contribution. I opened this three hours before dinner expecting that it needed time, but it was singing with all the markers of a top northern Rhone - deep dark red fruit, subtle spice and a sauvage feel to the wine. At dinner a couple of people found this to have excessive VA but I didn't get that, though I agreed that the nose was flat. Another taster said it might have been corked (which I usually am sensitive to) but the palate was still remarkably vibrant with sweet red fruit that almost verged on alcoholic, so most people guessed Italian. When tasted at home unfortunately it was definitely corked, albeit barely perceptibly so. Shame because if it had continued showing as it did when I first opened the bottle this would have been my best ever northern Rhone.

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• Dibbs Likes this wine: 92 points

  December 26, 2022 - Very strong VA on the nose. The palate is silky and well-integrated with strong acidity. I was more in Italy with Sangiovese rather than in Rhone. Good wine but would prefer a fresher bottle.

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• TBAFB wrote: flawed

  July 15, 2021 - Corked.

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• Raage Likes this wine: 93 points

  October 7, 2018 - Cd5 - Hermitage vs Côte Rotie à l'aveugle
  La teinte et le dépot laissent deviner son âge avancé (15/20 ans), puis son nez fin, évolué et complexe: Olive, tapenade, huitres, et cuir, poivre, épices, vin chaud, fruits confits, cerise macérée... Le tout avec une belle intensité, signant lévolution sans aucune fatigue! On pressent le beau millésime mûr et frais (99?2001?)
  En bouche, il arbore un profil fin et frais, salin, élancé (belle longueur), avec une tension minérale qui me fait aller sur Hermitage.
  93/94

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2001
• Type Red
• Producer Marc Sorrel
• Varietal Syrah
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Le Gréal
• Country France
• Region Rhône
• SubRegion Northern Rhône
• Appellation Hermitage

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• Pending Delivery 13 (6%)
• In Cellars 86 (42%)
• Consumed 108 (52%)

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