2008 Marc Sorrel Hermitage

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 89.7 points

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  1/13/2024 - melvinyeowq wrote: 91 Points

  Northern Rhone night: Showed quite similarly to the 2011 Le Greal that I opened a couple of years ago. Attractive VA that many at the table loved but thought it was a little too much for me. Pretty red fruit on the palate, delicate and elegant for a Hermitage but thought it lacked depth compared to the Faurie; perhaps due to the weaker vintage.

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  2/19/2016 - barolo300 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  a medium + ruby, giving away a little garnet age at the edge.
  So distinctly pepper corns on the nose and some forest fruits, but perhaps slightly cooked.
  Delicious on the palette, cooked fruit and pepper followed by some pretty wild astringency, but with rack of lamb and croquettes it cuts across pretty well. Could have lasted in bottle a few more years I would say...

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  1/4/2015 - Wigbert Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Dark red with orange bricking. Looks a bit older than it tastes.
  
  Very much red fruit on the nose with smoky notes on the end. Surely made with whole-bunch fermentation: a stemmy nose (not in a bad way).
  
  Ball of red fruit on the palate with pepery hints and the spice/lift from the stems. Reasonably good length.
  
  Good early drinking Hermitage from a reasonably weak Rhone vintage. Definitely enjoyable now.

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  1/31/2013 - bigop Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Good wine for early drinking, plenty of black fruits (olives, blackberry), great balance, white pepper...typical Syrah...and all that in a bad vintage for red northern rhone wines so much so that Mr Sorrel blended his 2 cuvées into this Hermitage. Great value for money!

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  9/13/2011 - sindbad wrote: 90 Points

  Unsmoked tobacco on the nose, followed by a whiff of iodine and leather. Good blackfruit on the palate and dominant tobacco flavor. A bit lean but pleasurable mouthfeel. Tasty without being self-important. Drank at Kensington Wine Rooms in London.

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