1985 E. Guigal Hermitage

Community Tasting Notes (32) Avg Score: 91.5 points

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  7/1/2023 - Wine Canuck wrote: 95 Points

  An Epic Summer Wine Weekend - Year 2; 6/30/2023-7/2/2023 (Muskoka, Ontario, Canada): [Tasted Single Blind] From a pristine bottle with a high fill. This pours light garnet in the glass. The nose is absolutely fabulous and is the real highlight here showing more in the quintessential Northern Rhone paradigm. Aromas are of green olives, brine, blueberry, animal fur, crushed slate, and whisps of white and black pepper. Relative to the nose, the palate is a tad challenging. At first entering on lovely dried blueberry, it then turns to medium plus tannin, and medium acid, giving this a structured, lightly astringent mouthfeel and also clipping the finish a tad. I correctly figured this must be the Guigal. It well exceed my expectations and really showed how a perfect bottle can transcend other experiecnes with the same wine. Some tasters thought this had an 80s La Chapelle profile which is a testament to how well this showed and how true it is to the application.

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  11/25/2022 - mowtod wrote: flawed

  Too old and thin

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  5/10/2021 - glou.sf Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Tasted blind. Pretty nose of chocolate, red fruit, and a hint of mushroom.s Nice acidity with sweet fruit, tart berries, some forest notes, and well integrated tannins. Medium finish. While quite good, this was a bit non-distinct and hard to place. The 1990 Hermitage we tasted a few months ago was clearly the better wine.

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  1/21/2018 - mye wrote:

  Birth Year - Themed wine dinner: Complete wild card.. everyone can pick this out.
  decanted 1 hour, followed through the night..
  Individually it's tasty.. solid well made wine, with inviting earthiness. A hint of plum and red fruit. just so easy to drink.
  A little out of place and overshadowed.. so half a bottle left untouched.
  
  Day 2: wow. amazing.. completely held up, and just soft and easy to drink with all the complexity of a top tier bottle. Would also drink this all day.

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  6/27/2015 - AllRed wrote: flawed

  4th Saturday Group brown bagger (Our house): Corked

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