2003 Delas Frères Hermitage Marquise de la Tourette

Community Tasting Notes (107) Avg Score: 91.5 points

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  2/19/2024 - LT98 wrote:

  Flawed - clearly reading the notes there is a lot of bottle variation and this was a bad one. I have had the bottle for many years, stored well, but it tasted old, tired, and baked. Demoted to cooking wine.

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  3/20/2022 - Eric wrote:

  ESTG Northern Rhône: Cracked pepper, cherry, super young, juicy. It has none of the flaws of the hot 2003 vintage but also seems to have barely evolved at this point.

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  2/20/2022 - norsktorsk wrote: 93 Points

  evolves nicely with air as one goes through the evening.

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  12/31/2021 - SFCC Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Superb wine offering depth and strong primary, secondary and tertiary flavours. 1 hr decant. Excellent with venison.

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  12/5/2021 - tward wrote: 88 Points

  The last of a multi-bottle lot purchased a few years ago from K&L Auctions. Even accounting for 2003 being a hot vintage this has me scratching my head. Both who drank this would have called it a warm vintage Southern Rhone Grenache-dominant wine, not a NoRo Syrah. Still, it's very good in the plummy, baking dark fruits with a touch of spice kind of way. It's just not what you'd want in a Hermitage. Smooth and easy, very ripe, not cloying, but rich. Drink up.
  
  After a little buying spree a few years ago at K&L Auctions, I've concluded that though there are some good buys there, it seems more like a dumping ground for collectors looking to trim cellars of wines that haven't worked out. This was sold as "Provenance: Wine purchased on release from reputable sources and stored in the temperature controlled wine cellar of a Paso Robles Winery.".
  
  There is a label slapped on the back that shows that it was imported by Premier Cru (Emeryville, CA). A "reputable source"? No, that was most definitely not a reputable source.
  
  14% abv
  Questionable QPR at $60/btl

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