1998 Paul Jaboulet Aîné Hermitage La Chapelle

Community Tasting Notes (269) Avg Score: 91.6 points

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  5/1/2024 - honest bob wrote: 96 Points

  From 75cl, a bottle of impeccable provenance, perfect cork, decanted 45 minutes, improved until final drop. Decanted 1 hour, improved until final drop. A flat-out-fabulous bottle in perfect, peak maturity (unexpected, given recent CT TNs and my own mixed experiences of the 1997). Earthy, dark, sous-bois, balsamic scent. Medium-bodied, finely muscular entry. Vibrant, scintillating, electric texture from nose to tail. Bright plum acidity and a cornunucopia of dark fruit on the mid-palate; fine, residually tannic backbone. Minutes-long, throbbing, finish. My wine of the year so far (let's include 2023 in that). 96–97P

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  3/25/2024 - steveiiiiii wrote:

  Four bottles over two years, all from great storage. The two most recent bottles have been very different from each other where the one before this was super elegant, fully mature, silky and extremly well balanced (94p). This however was dissapointment: Thight, tannic and quite bland. Over the four bottles only the first two was similar in development. To be continued..

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  2/10/2024 - Rani Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Tasted blind. It gave a lot of vanillla at first, and this combined with the acidity sent me to Spain. Lovely red fruit here, with floral overtones, very fine but persistent tannins. Only after 30 minutes in the glass did it exhibit some white pepper. Really good.

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  12/30/2023 - rhyman Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Decanted for three hours. Drank smooth from the beginning. Smokey, briary, smooth with a small bite in the mid palate. Enjoyable, has a fre years left.

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  12/1/2023 - Jd6725 Likes this wine: 95 Points

  A wonderful showing of this wine. Extremely structured but unfurled with great fruit and spices. So lovely and complex, in a great spot right now even though I should have given it more air than I did. Well stored bottles are definitely a candidate for a decant.

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