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1999 Domaine Jean-Louis Chave Hermitage |
| Vintage | 1999 |  Label 1 of 11   | |
| Type | Red | ||
| Producer | Domaine Jean-Louis Chave | ||
| Variety | Syrah | ||
| Designation | n/a | ||
| Vineyard | n/a | ||
| Country | France | ||
| Region | Rhône | ||
| SubRegion | Northern Rhône | ||
| Appellation | Hermitage |
| Community Tasting History |
Community Tasting Notes (average 94 pts. and median of 94 pts. in 38 notes) | |
| Tasted by Anonymous on 1/23/2010 & rated 94 points: (124 views) | |
| Tasted by Milos on 12/5/2009 & rated 95 points: This is a great wine. Nose of dark red sweet fruit. Complexity added with wood, brown sugar and touch of leather. Still mostly primary flavours, but the secondary flavours are starting to show. Tannins are still evident but the mouth feel is rich and plush. Long finish. Finished the bottle the next day and the wine was even more enjoyable. If you have to drink it now give it couple of hours in a decanter; better to wait another 5 years. (422 views) | |
| Tasted by Loren Sonkin on 10/25/2009 & rated 96 points: Paul K in SF (San Francisco): Great nose on opening, but too a god hour or more to open up. Despite being a ripe year, this shows is soul as well as it sense of place. Olive tapenade, boysenberries, violets and damp earthiness make for an enticing nose. Layered, but tight complexity unwind all night. Fiishing the bottle back in my hotel room 4 hours after opening, the last drop is the best. Really needs five more years, but just a wonderful expression of Hermitage. (813 views) | |
| Tasted by HenryW on 10/23/2009 & rated 95 points: Rich ripe nose of rasperries, plums and brown sugar. Initially the palate was a bit closed, with the fruit obscured by the oak and tannins. After about an hour in the glass, really started to open up. Palate became much bigger and more expressive with loads of wonderful red fruit. Not much in the way of tertiary flavors and aromas at this point, but this one has a ways to go before hitting its prime. (666 views) | |
| Tasted by Blair Curtis on 10/11/2009 & rated 93 points: Tasted alongside the 1997. This one was both juicier and more structured. Perhaps the 1997 has a bit more acid, but in all other respects the '99 is the bigger wine. Though the 1997 in some ways provides more pleasure now, this 1999 has more potential I think. The fruit is immense and leaning towards the blacker side of the spectrum. Roasted meat, new leather...yum yum. Has excellent balance. (735 views) | |
| Tasted by David J Cooper on 10/7/2009: Red. Hints of rubber, brett and concentrated sweet red fruit. Not as interesting at first as the 97 but in the end it's equal or better. My notes say ripe but tight. (778 views) | |
| Tasted by Anonymous on 10/6/2009 & rated 92 points: WineFanatic Northern Rhone Offline (Vancouver, BC): Tasted blind. At first this wine came across very ripe with black and dark red fruits but after some time in the glass it started showing hints of charred meats and earth. A huge wine full of structure that needs serious time to evolve but what a treat to taste this now. Hold. Excellent. 92+ (828 views) | |
| Tasted by BradE on 10/5/2009: Simply spectacular. This wine rocks. (848 views) | |
| Tasted by BradE on 7/21/2009: Showed even younger than usual, but still a great young Chave. (1089 views) | |
| Tasted by BradE on 7/15/2009: Subpar performance for this bottle - a first with 99 Chave. From same parcel as prior bottles. (993 views) | |
| Tasted by reichken on 6/30/2009 & rated 94 points: WIMPs N Rhone Lunch (The Ledbury, London): Dark purple color. a meaty smokey nose with dark red fruits trying to come through. also some oak still on the nose. this is a big mouthful of wine. dark red and black fruits, wrapped in bacon and slow roasted. yum yum yum. very well balanced, very long. a delicious young rhone which is barely on the upswing. it will be a good one in the years to come (1165 views) | |
| Tasted by Olch on 6/29/2009 & rated 90 points: (865 views) | |
| Tasted by theeb on 6/25/2009 & rated 95 points: Vielschichtig, pfeffrig mit dichter Frucht und immer noch erstaunlich frisch. Unendlich langer Abgang. Wunderbar. (1117 views) | |
| Tasted by reichken on 6/25/2009 & rated 93 points: Deep dark color, looks like a very young bottle. The nose shows black fruits, some glycerol, a bit of smokiness. the mouth is pretty much dark black fruits and still quite new woody tannic. it has quite a bit of feel and texture to it, not a lightweight. med high alcohol and long finish. i can see the line from the '82 and '83 Chave to this one, i hope it develops in that direction as it losses more of its tannins (1146 views) | |
| Tasted by Siggy on 6/9/2009: Good, but not great. Showed some nice red fruit and bacon notes, but overall a bit underwhelming relative to expectations. My '99 Chave stash comes from three different sources (this one was from Winebid), and it'll be interesting to see if the others show differently. (1193 views) | |
| Tasted by BradE on 5/22/2009: Simply beautiful. Can't keep my hands off these. Love it. (1218 views) | |
| Tasted by rstark on 5/6/2009 & rated 94 points: Four Seasons Wine Dinner - Burgs and Northern Rhones (Four Seasons, Beverly Hills): Deep plum ... I forgot how tarry and dark Chaves can be. Great smoky, cigar ash finish. Huge improvement after 2 hours in glass. (856 views) | |
| Tasted by JBVino on 4/15/2009: classy syrah...long time to go...fruit is still front center and majority secondary flavors should still come. Integration is awesome and with time this should be outstanding. (1447 views) | |
| Tasted by BradE on 4/11/2009: We drank the 99 and 89 Chave side by side. Tonight, the 99 smoked the 89. I'm really a fan of the 99. It tends to combine all the great elements of Chave, but keeps the excesses in control (particularly bret-wise). I plan on drinking the 99's all through their development - in my mind there is no need to sit on this wine. (1431 views) | |
| Tasted by rnellans on 3/23/2009 & rated 95 points: Dark ruby. Big mouth filling wine . Big bacon fat aromas with dark fruits. This wine is a baby. Tannins are not obtrusive. Outstanding wine. (1583 views) | |
| Tasted by BradE on 2/17/2009: Great bottle. Loved by all. Wonderful nose, more pure and less bret. Really a good wine now, but no hurry. (1593 views) | |
| Tasted by BradE on 1/27/2009: Fabulous wine. Grew and grew with air. Money. (1612 views) | |
| Tasted by gorm on 1/9/2009 & rated 97 points: Uncorked DK does Northern Rhône - Guigal, Chave, Chapoutier and more (Premisse, Copenhagen): Same color as the two previous wines. Big and slightly acidic nose with sweet red berries - strawberries mainly - caramel, marzipane and tons of herbs. The intensity is turned all the way up and there are also loads of fine tannins and acidic backbone. It is incredibly delicious and the herbal touch makes you think of the 2003 version even if this 1999 is more shy and elegant than the 2003. Initially I had this elegantier as the heat winner, but is was just a bit short cmpared to the Belle Helene. If Belle Helene was the ultimate masculine wine, this is clearly its feminime opposite. (U:96,2) (1668 views) | |
| Tasted by BordeauxNut on 9/9/2008 & rated 99 points: Bud Starr's September Tasting (Bud Starr's Clayton, MO): I've had this a half dozen or more times since release, and while it has never shut down completely, this was the wine's best showing to date. Refined, elegant, deeply fruited without being obvious. Amazing freshness and length. The wine starts off great and just gets better for me. I rated this appreciably higher than other tasters, many of whom thought it might be a California Pinot or Burgundy, so take my effusive praise with a grain of salt -- it wasn't universally praised. For me, truly great Chave and Grand Vin. Thanks, Dan. I would imagine that this wine might someday be a legend. (2020 views) | |
| Tasted by JeffGMorris on 2/17/2008 & rated 94 points: Rednecks & Rhones Chave-a-thon. Deep, rich purple in color, this showed very much like earlier bottles. Upon opening this was quite tight but showed the great potential it has. With time it was opening some but could never be seen as anything other than a very young and primary Chave. Despite this, it is a very compelling wine to drink now in it's infancy. There was a depth to the fruit that only the '89 could match today. As with previous tastings I think it's fascinating to have this next to the '89 as you can see the lineage of great vintages at Chave. Very much a wine to enjoy in 10-20 years when this should be stupendous. 50+13+13+9+9 = 94+ (2568 views) | |
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Varietal article (Wikipedia) | (Wines Northwest) Vins de France (Office National Interprofessionnel des Vins ) | Pages Vins, Directory of French Winegrowers | French Wine (Wikipedia) The Rhône Valley/Le Vins de la Vallée du Rhône (Comité Interprofession des vins AOC Côtes et vallée du Rhône) The Rhône Valley/Le Vins de la Vallée du Rhône (Comité Interprofession des vins AOC Côtes et vallée du Rhône) Regional History: Phocaean Greeks established viticulture in the Rhone as far back as 600 BC, but until the 14th century the wines were not seen outside the region. The establishment of the Avignonese Papacy (1305-1377) brought fame to the region's wine-so much so that their Burgundian neighbors to the north banned wines from the Rhone in 1446, a measure that effectively cut off trade with England and other Northern European markets for over 200 years. Stretching southward from Lyon to Avignon, the Rhone produces a wide variety of wines, with the appellations north of Valence producing the least (in volume), and the towns south of Montelimar producing prodigious amounts. As in other regions, the most interesting wines come from small farms. Saint-Joseph, in the northern Rhone, extends for some distance between Condrieu in the north to Saint-Peray in the south. The reds are made from Syrah and the rare whites from Marsanne and Rousanne, and Viognier. • The appellation stretches over 3 communes in the Drôme "département" : Tain-l'Hermitage, Crozes-Hermitage and Larnage. • The soils are a combination of granite with alluvial quaternary delta deposits, and, on the eastern side, Pliocene clay. This diversity explains the numerous different names given to vineyard plots within the appellation : Bessards, Greffieux, Méal, Roucoule, Beaumes, etc. • The meso-climate provides shelter from the north winds, where the majority of the slopes is well exposed, facing south. •The vineyards area adds up to 134 hectares/331 acres, with an annual production of 3,635 hectoliters. Authorized maximum yield is 40 hectoliters/hectare (2.3 US tons/acres). • Grape varieties : Syrah (an addition of up to 15% of Marsanne or Roussanne is allowed). |
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