1944 M. Chapoutier Hermitage Blanc Chante-Alouette

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 96 points

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  1/9/2006 - Russell Faulkner wrote:

  Dirty brown/yellow. christmas pudding and sweet sherry nose, full body, medium sweet, oily, clean acidic finish. Still very much alive for 62 years old, if not to everyones tastes. 90?

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  1/7/2006 - andrewstevenson.com wrote: 96 Points

  North Rhône Offline (Rotisserie Jules, South Kensington): A deep tan, fading to a yellow-green rim. Dirtyish caramel nose with some fresh citrus notes and nuts. Very lively on attack. Good acidity with some quite concentrated dried fruit, which lends it some sweetness. This is rather good, despite the evident age. God knows how old it it. I assumed it could be anything from the north Rhône before about 1950. Judged on its own, before the reveal, I thought it was Very Good Indeed. 92-93/100.
  Coming back to this some four hours or so later, there is sweet dried fruit on the nose together with some citrussy agrume-like notes. It has remarkable balance of some sweetness (not exactly sweet fruit flavours, just a sort of sweet richness hinting at residual sugar) and some quite lively acidity; especially remarkable (to me at least) considering its age. It's really remarkably lovely, and has undoubtedly improved with being open. Incredible stuff. 96+/100

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