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• Rote Kappelle Likes this wine: 93 points

  December 7, 2022 - And here we are a year after my last review and the wine is even better. The song is the Scorpions 1979 'Loving You Sunday Morning'. Look, this is great right now and forget the 'Crozes-Hermitage isn't as good as ... ' and just love this on whatever morning, afternoon or evening you like for what it is - Shiraz in a sports car structure. Vroom...
  
  It will keep going and maybe even get better for many years but when something is good, I say drive it hard - tomorrow you might be dead.

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• Rote Kappelle Likes this wine: 93 points

  August 21, 2021 - Under the Russian Roulette of cork, but this bottle is fine. Not decanted.
  
  Colour is verging on inky purple black (or Dark Purple Blues if you like your Black Oak Arkansas - and you should, damn you!).
  
  If you don't think Crozes-Hermitage can produce top notch wine, you should try this. The exuberance may make you think it lacks profundity - Mozart v Schubert, but in that case you should think again. Because under the enticing smokey, plum and blackberry, there is a serious structure and more complexity than one has a right to expect from Crozes.
  
  I won't push an argument that this is as good as Hermitage or Cornas, though I think an argument could be made. What I will say is that this combines gravitas with hedonism and that, my friends, is what wine is about.
  
  I am pleased to note that the unwiped bum elements in the 2015 Alberic Bouvet are missing from this wine, which makes me wonder if my concerns about Brettanomyces in that wine were wrong. The naughty yeast would almost certainly have infected everything from this maker.
  
  I must add a note about the structure and texture of this wine. The tannins are fine, ripe and only really come in on the finish, where they support the wine. There is fresh acidity that keeps everything in line. This combination really lifts the wine into a special category, for me.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2015
• Type Red
• Producer Gilles Robin
• Varietal Syrah
• Designation 1920
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Rhône
• SubRegion Northern Rhône
• Appellation Crozes-Hermitage

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• In Cellars 17 (77%)
• Consumed 5 (23%)

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