2005 Yann Chave Hermitage

Community Tasting Notes (19) Avg Score: 91 points

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  12/11/2023 - boillatm Likes this wine: 90 Points

  The previous taster mentioned "light", I will say "quiet". Good mature hermitage that should be drunk now based on the bottle I had.
  We had most of the bottle for lunch and left 1-2 glasses for the evening. By then, the wine had turned bitter and I threw it down the sink

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  11/20/2022 - gtilley wrote:

  Very well knit dried fruitcake, ground coffee, raw meat, black cherry, toast. My husband said it was ‘“light”, which I don’t agree with but I see what he means - not a blockbuster, rather restrained. Plenty of life in it.

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  8/9/2021 - gtilley wrote:

  This certainly has all the range of aroma and flavour that one associates with middle-aged Hermitage - raw meat, salt and pepper, dark fruits, emerging saddle leather and spiced dried fruit. It's very well balanced but was somewhat reticent - you need to work hard to identify and appreciate all the aromas. Frankly if I was tasting this blind I might not have given it the reverence that the "Hermitage" label promises. Nevertheless a fine glass of wine. Tasted beside a much more modest 2009 Madiran, that wine was the one that grabbed the attention.

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  7/3/2020 - DrZett wrote: 91 Points

  Quite a lot of tertiary notes for a 15 years old Hermitage. All in all very nice. Drink now or within the next 5-8 years.

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  5/1/2020 - LFCHALA Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Great Hermitage, but very young.The Hermitages' aging capacity is impressive. I think they should not be drunk until they are 20 years old. The hard part is waiting

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