2016 J.L. Chave Sélection Crozes-Hermitage Silène

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 89.7 points

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  9/2/2023 - jkscully Likes this wine:

  Compared to the Lises, this wine is less fresh with more licorice, tobacco, pencil lead, and stewed fruits in the flavor profile. I also get more bacon flavor with black pepper and menthol on the finish on the finish. Nice garigue and chalkiness. It’s spicy, fruity, and not too funky. This is a good wine. I liked the Lises slightly better, but both bottles were impressive for the price.

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  1/12/2023 - rikipedia Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Mid purple with lovely scents of lavender, smoke, mineral, dried earth, fennel bulb and ripe black cherries.
  Mid-bodied, the opening is all garrigue, and warm gravel, whilst the core is fleshy with morello cherry and those fennel fronds / aniseed elements. Chalky tannins in the mid-palate are grippy with a sweet rubbing texture and a coolness from a fresh acidity to give the wine a spine and medium length.

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  3/29/2020 - Ardross Likes this wine: 90 Points

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  11/24/2019 - Ardross Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Deep red rather than purple . Light on its feet - not “serieux” - gushingly lovely stuff .

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  4/7/2019 - MaurizioAbba Likes this wine: 91 Points

  2016 has been a challenging year for Hermitage, as hail in April caused a severe reduction in volume. The quality of the final product, however, benefitted from perfect temperatures in Autumn. Silene is a selection from Jean Louis Chave, who cultivated this land since XV century. The granite soil of Crozes is fully reflected in the wine, showing raspberry notes on a mineral vein. Time will allow to grow up some more interesting tertiary flavors, for now limited to tobacco and a hint of licorice. The taste, however, is already balanced, with soft and ready tannins balancing a strong minerality core. I'd suggest to leave it there for 2-3 years at least, to check whether the potential it showed on the nose can fully develop

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