2019 Domaine Jean-Louis Chave Hermitage Blanc

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 95.6 points

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  4/19/2024 - Torchy wrote: 92 Points

  April BYO (Bodø, Norway): The wine is light straw yellow, and smells of sweet fruit, dry paper, and light notes of hung meat. The wine is perceived to have fortified tones, which I have previously also experienced in white wines from the Northern Rhone. Left the wine for a long time in the glass and with time it develops more floral notes. On the palate, the wine is acidic and has an oily mouthfeel. The wine has a bitter fruit profile.

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  11/17/2023 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Duck, duck, abortion!; 11/11/2023-11/17/2023: [Coravined a pour] (No initial rating, couldn't give it one honestly on the first go around)
  A heavy wall of wax and notes of petrol that stand in the way of this damp oaked fruit.
  
  Palate showed bitter yellow and heavy fruits. This is big, and so round, and even thicc.. Could’ve used an injection of acidity but I don’t know if it would ever get some. Maybe with a ton of time, the weighty fruit recedes some and allows the acidity, if there is any at all, to strut its stuff. to Personally, I don't know if food would even help this but supposedly it should.
  
  [Popped cork after 6 days]
  Nose is surprisingly different: yellow flowers with a spritz of deep honey, and halved pineapples with a nicely bitter lemon zest. A pleasantly creamy characteristic adds depth, almost like a drop of condensed vanilla.
  
  The flavors are like biting into a slice of pineapple with all its sweetness extracted, leaving just its juicy, bitter and mineraly flesh. Tall grass and earth on the mid palate. Bitter hay, minerals, lime zest and dirt dry straw trails into the finish.
  
  Decant HEAVY if opening now, and room temp actually seemed to improve this. It’s weighty but softens up with a lot of time. Should also go well with food, with what though, I can’t tell ya.

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  11/17/2023 - csimm wrote: 95 Points

  Notes of apricot, lemon, white peach, honey, limestone, and olive oil touch off an oily but properly dry delivery of controlled (and fairly restrained) flavors that roll along the palate in a balanced and somewhat firm cadence. Finishes a little stern, but not without lovely pure fruit flavors saturating the palate, stopping just short of a full envelopment. This is young and primary in many ways, but there is solid accessibility despite its more militaristic posturing. The freshness here holds interest, though I’d give this a decade before it really starts to come alive (depending on when the whole ‘shut down’ period with these wines starts to kick off). A treat to try even at this early stage.

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  4/27/2023 - Ben Christiansen wrote:

  Also amazing and dynamic nose to it. And round and full and rich.

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  2/18/2023 - KPB Likes this wine: 99 Points

  A stunning Hermitage Blanc, the 2019 has a limpid pale yellow color, with soaring aromas of yellow gooseberry, beeswax, honeysuckle, caramel. Concentrated and long, saturates the palate. The level of acidity is in balance and lifts and frames the wine without dominating. Trails off on a fascinating bitter note, like the scorched flesh of a roast chestnut, and for me this bitterness elevates the wine to genuine majesty. Unquestionably one of the world’s best white wines.

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