2001 M. Chapoutier Ermitage Blanc De L'Orée

Community Tasting Notes (15) Avg Score: 91.7 points

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  9/8/2021 - mistermags Likes this wine: 95 Points

  A small glass using Coravin. Served at 12C. Swirled in the glass and drank immediately, with fresh bread and a few Moroccan olives.
  More straw than gold. Appealing bouquet that, unhelpfully, I couldn't quite distinguish. Initially on the light side, took on considerable weight in the glass. Rich and complex flavour profile with a long finish.
  I have little experience of twenty year old white Rhone, but this seems mature without being at all tired.
  95 ('Grade A - Outstanding')

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  9/3/2020 - viniferatu Likes this wine:

  Rhone chez Jim
  
  tasted blind, guessed 2010 Hermitage
  
  Deep gold color. Honey and white flowers, golden apple, clove and herbs, intense sweet citrus note emerges with air, beeswax and minerals, full and silky

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  1/13/2020 - jkoenen wrote: 95 Points

  After having tasted two suboptimal white Hermitages last saturday, I have to admit that it can be a hit-and-miss when it comes to aging Rhone blancs...
  But this one slightly restores my faith in doing so.
  Golden colour, spicy tropical fruit, juicy and sappy in the midpalate and a long, rich and satisfying finish.
  No distracting notes of oxidation.
  A wonderful bottle from a good but not a great vintage.
  Tops.

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  6/16/2019 - beatles wrote: 93 Points

  Amazing wine, extremely balanced in spite of it's richness with honey galore and a bees wax texture, I bow my head to the white Hermitage-wine of Chapoutier.
  #MasterClass

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  6/18/2018 - Xavier Auerbach wrote:

  A private lunch (Restaurant Vineum, Rotterdam, NL): Deep colour, oxidative. Two bottles with a similar profile. Not rated.

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