1996 E. Guigal Hermitage

Community Tasting Notes (2) Median Score: 88 points

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View TannicBeast's profile
  • Report Issue

  1/28/2014 - TannicBeast Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Tasted blind. Clean, medium (+) garnet with brown hues. Definitely showing a little age. The nose is clean, developed and medium (+) in intensity, with aromas of dry red cherries, tar, earth, forest floor. The palate is dry, with medium (+) acidity, medium alcohol and resolved tannins. This is a well made wine which is ready and perhaps past its prime. I would not have guessed that it was this old, however, so it showed pretty well.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View wickedwax's profile
  • Report Issue

  11/11/2012 - wickedwax wrote:

  Aromas of mainly red berry fruit, tart red plums and a touch of dark fruit with white pepper, garrigue, coffee and Brett notes. Fairly full-bodied with mostly resolved tannins and a velvety soft texture. Fairly good length. Don't think this will gain more complexity with additional bottle age, but a well stored bottle should be able to last another 5 years.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

Professional reviews have copyrights and you can view them here for your personal use only as private content. To view pro reviews you must either subscribe to a pre-integrated publication or manually enter reviews below. Learn more.