1983 Domaine Jean-Louis Chave Hermitage

Community Tasting Notes (178) Avg Score: 93.4 points

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  4/20/2024 - etyc Likes this wine:

  Fully mature, this had the "converged" bouquet where aged Burgs & N. Rhones start to show similarities, w/ "dusty" dark-red cherries, earth, sous-bois & some herbs... Still energetic on the palate, with enough fruit/freshness to still propel it for some years to go; At the plateau now, doubt it'll improve further...

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  3/17/2024 - acyso wrote: 93 Points

  Heater week; 3/8/2024-3/17/2024 (Chicago, IL): Not at the level of Friday's bottle. Initially my favourite of the 80s Chaves, but this was surpassed by the 1988 later in the evening. Ripe fruit and a mix of red and black. A little dirty and not as pristine as that earlier bottle. Still, a very enjoyable bottle.

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  3/15/2024 - acyso wrote: 95 Points

  Heater week; 3/8/2024-3/17/2024 (Chicago, IL): Can't believe it's taken me this long to come across this wine. It was a bit underwhelming at first, but despite its age, took to air very well and expanded in depth and power as the night went on. Structured more like the Juge, with black fruit and a burlier tannic presence (versus the lighter and more ethereal Jamet and Trollat), there's an incredible depth of flavour and potency here. Of course, there's plenty rusticity typical for the Chave of yore. Very impressive stuff -- I hope to cross paths with this again before long. For my palate, very much at peak.

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  3/1/2024 - vvWine.ch wrote: 95 Points

  Gereiftes Rubin, orangenfarbene Ränder. Feinduftige Nase, Herbstlaub, getrocknete Rosen, sehr floral und verspielt, fast schon burgundisch anmutend. Im Gaumen zugänglich, noch immer mit schöner Frucht, die Tannine sind abgeschmolzen, die Säure wirkt stimmig, hier ist alles an seinem Platz, ungemein elegant, frisch und mit feiner Würze und roten Beeren im Abgang. Love it. Trinken bis 2030.

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  1/24/2024 - MartyL Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Ready and glorious. Amazing dark savory aromatics, but somehow light and etherial on the palate. Was great on pop & pour. A reminder of how great Chave once was.

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