2015 Paul Jaboulet Aîné Hermitage La Chapelle

Community Tasting Notes (12) Avg Score: 95.9 points

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  4/2/2024 - BLam Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Eric served it magnum size in HK. A very young wine.

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  11/20/2023 - watcheslover Likes this wine: 100 Points

  Fabulous, the best La Chapelle ever made with 1961, 1962, 1964 and 1978
  
  To buy only if you are very patient, LOL

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  12/16/2022 - randyjc wrote: 97 Points

  This wine is exceptional, even in its primary stage. It’s young in appearance, taste and feel but I didn’t think it was being consumed too early because it’s just so good. On opening, the wine was rough and brambly - tannic, rugged, even barbaric, but in a way that I knew it would be ready for dinner three hours later and likely be wonderful. Indeed. As we drank over the next hour it unfurled even more. Epic and elegant yet restrained. A still-subdued nose of black fruit, some sort of muskiness and chalky minerality. Sensuous mouth feel, delivering cool and restrained flavors that overtake the senses. Black fruit, smoky earth and blue flowers with tight tannin and a lovely band of minerality. The finish is where the wine really shows its class - within the first few seconds it trails off in a pleasing way but then acid reasserts itself and pushes the finish another thirty seconds of lingering wonder. No missteps, nothing even remotely discordant. This wine has everything and in ten years may even be perfect.

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  8/11/2022 - Wesley clemens wrote: 98 Points

  Drank after 6 hours decanting in a blind battle with Le Meal 2009 of Chapoutier. Incredibly drinkable, no sharp edges, tannins are there but do not dry your mouth. Great wine. Drink or hold

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  1/21/2022 - Philippe_C wrote:

  Very closed nose, very mineral, very dark… Very cold, tannic, dry, a bit austere, needs at least 5-10 years to develop!

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