2003 E. Guigal Hermitage

Community Tasting Notes (118) Avg Score: 91.5 points

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  2/15/2024 - Ernestas Likes this wine: 92 Points

  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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  11/23/2023 - Bonesetter Likes this wine: 88 Points

  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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  10/29/2023 - felixp Likes this wine: 94 Points

  drinking perfectly. Black fruits, quite floral, and huge length.

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  10/20/2023 - prism wrote:

  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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  4/9/2023 - cwiebe Likes this wine: 94 Points

  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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