1998 M. Chapoutier Ermitage l'Ermite

Community Tasting Notes (18) Avg Score: 95.1 points

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  2/15/2024 - Raizes Likes this wine: 93 Points

  黑樱桃、李子的果味在酸度引领下成为主线，胡椒、甘草、皮革和烟熏味做出补充。香气的呈现略弱，整体状态不算太好。单宁细腻丝滑，展现了良好的成熟度和陈年融合，但也一直在努力追赶酸度的步伐，直到后期才逐渐找回应有的强度，成为完整结构的最后一块拼图。
  
  和去年喝过的同款相比，这一瓶的状态不是很好。开瓶六小时后，在席间做了双重醒酒，随着香气和单宁的丰满，营造了一段还算令自己满意的试饮窗口。

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  1/1/2024 - Peter Spijker Likes this wine: 94 Points

  This was really good. Tannins are integrated, and the wine is showing nice notes of blackberry, pepper, cherry, earth, oak, leather, with medium intensity, and a nice roundness and elegance on the finish.

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  11/18/2023 - Honest Horse Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Goddammit this fucks HARD. Tremendous banger of a wine from a hot dry vintage built for intensity and aging. I love it...
  
  Exceedingly chameleonic over the course of even a single glass. The nose and palate change so intensely with temperature, I can't help but to point out how extreme it is. At ~68 degrees, the intensity of the leather and tobacco and secondary/tertiary notes is beautiful and steals the show, but also at ~60 degrees the fruit does the same. More than I expected. Anyway...
  
  Dark bloody barn red color, very minor bricking, although the nose immediately suggests its age.
  
  Excellent concentration and highly complex on the nose: Black plum, mulled black cherry, white pepper, cedar, wet tobacco, leather, cocoa powder, steak blood/heme/iron, smoke, igneous rock, wet stones. A lovely bouquet to keep revisiting and peeling layers.
  
  On the palate, tannins quite present but well integrated and well balanced--might improve from here for ~5 years, but really showing tremendously right now, hard for me to hold. Palate shows sour cherry, red plum, leather, fruitcake, baking spice, tobacco, crushed rocks, dusty forest floor. Finishes long but slightly dusty, so perhaps a reason to hold for a few more years, given there's definitely plenty of life.
  
  This is TREMENDOUS

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  10/17/2023 - jmoon Likes this wine: 96 Points

  I mean wow. This one is one fabulous wine, needed an hour or two to fully flesh out. At peak can’t see upside but wow. Juicy saline tang meaty dark delicious but clean.

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  9/16/2023 - Raizes Likes this wine: 95 Points

  黑莓，黑李子、甘草、皮革，很多的紫罗兰花香和一点点胡椒，非常芳香的呈现。在酸度和酒精的相互平衡下，结构方正、宽广、挺拔，单宁丰富有力的同时非常成熟和细腻，与高集中度的香气共同支撑起饱满的中段口感，同时在悠长的余味中萦绕不散。

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