2001 Domaine Jean-Louis Chave Hermitage

Community Tasting Notes (167) Avg Score: 93.4 points

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  5/5/2024 - lozatron Likes this wine:

  Hermitage's Dinner (Noizé): First red of the dinner. Garnet colour. Lovely nose, and fully in line with the palate - poise and grunt in alignment. My handwritten notes said "higher class???" - it's fully self confident but talks rather than shouts, there's fruit and structure but also a gentle herbaceousness. Some discussion at the table of stemminess - not sure, and indeed some of the reductive qualities I associate with stems - this had the least of of the wines of this flight.

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  5/4/2024 - glou.sf Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Deep and dark nose with notes of violets, black cherries, and lots of floral character. Good acidity with meaty flavors, olives, bacon, and more cherries. Long finish. A beautiful experience and while I'm sure this will only be better in 10-20 years it's really showing well today with air.

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  5/4/2024 - aagrawal wrote: 95 Points

  Dinner with the wine group (Los Gatos): Fabulously aromatic, spice, black pepper, meaty; medium bodied, integrated tannin, smooth texture throughout, black fruited; long, long finish. Spectacular and very food friendly. 94-95

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  4/18/2024 - Ben Christiansen wrote: flawed

  Magical. Delicate. And wonderful.

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  3/17/2024 - acyso wrote: 93 Points

  Heater week; 3/8/2024-3/17/2024 (Chicago, IL): Late release. Too young! This feels a decade younger than it is -- all structure and acid; slightly angular and missing almost any secondary characteristics. If anything this feels like it's in some dumb phase between primary and secondary. Impressively youthful, but better to let these rest for even longer.

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