1998 Domaine Belle Hermitage

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 89.3 points

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  12/27/2018 - Orso58 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Very good and healthy colour, lovely black berry fruit, this bottle was even better than the previous one but consistant with previous tasting notes - drinking very well now!

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  1/19/2013 - Alex H wrote: 84 Points

  Funky leather barnyard and crushed beetles. Quite telling of its terroir I thought. Fruits were licourice and black clove spiced. Not for the faint hearted I would admit.

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  12/30/2012 - Paul S wrote: 90 Points

  JM's Old World Education (Pine Close): A decently good Hermitage from a maker I have never tried before. It had a gently complex nose, with sweet blackberry and dried cherry aromas sprinkled with some garrigue and dried lavender flowers, and just a little, rather Aussie touch of crushed ant scents. The palate was classic 1998 Northern Rhone. Balanced, integrated, and blessed with a solid backbone, this seemed just about perfect to drink now, with juicy flavours of blackberries and black cherries and a bit of meatiness, finished with a toss of earth and more of the garrigue and lavender picked up on the nose. A nice wine, if just lacking a touch of depth to be special.

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  12/30/2012 - JerM wrote: 91 Points

  (jm's old world education@paulS') Pretty perfume of berries, cracked pepper, spice, smoke and crushed beetle (formic acid). Taste is sweet, with tight tannins, funky leather, light, with some restrained complexity.

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