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Community Tasting Notes (18) Avg Score: 93.1 points

  • Tasted blind. Floral and fruity nose, but on the palate it is a little warm and lacking structure and too seeet. Disappointing.

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  • Lunch at Bacata. Tasted blind. Drank in Grassl 1855.
    Appearance is clear, deep intensity, ruby colour. Legs.
    Nose is clean, medium+ intensity, with aromas of fine earth, stone mineral dust, blackberries, black cherries, dark red cherries, fine integrated wood, light musky animal and leather. Developing.
    On the palate, dry, high acidity, medium+ alcohol (14%), fine high tannins, full body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of dark plums, blackberries, black cherries, fine earth, dusty crushed stones minerality, pepper spice, meat. Long finish.
    Very good quality. Oak from few years ago all nicely integrated in now. Initially was tight and needed quite a lot of air in decanter to open up. Should be slowly entering a good drinking window.

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  • A wine of great finesse which seems to have just entered its drinking window. Very typical northern Rhone nose with notes of violets, leather and forest fruit. Has freshness with a some tertiary aromas begining to develop. Silky on the palate with firm structure and long finish. A wine that combines elegance with intensity and power. Excellent now but will only become better with time.

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  • This wine makes a poor excuse for a California Syrah. Over ripe, austere, oaky, and soulless, it’s a waste of money and time. Tasted blind with a 2004 Pavillon and 2004 Voge Cornas Vieilles Vignes this wine failed to show up. Stay away. I don’t have faith age will help, it will just get old. Frankly, Pavillon is in a different league then other Chapoutier wines. Not sure why L’Ermite is getting the hype.

    Update: had a little vial sitting in my wine fridge for two weeks and it’s shockingly not oxidized at all. It’s not much better than before either 😭 but suggests maybe this wine just needs a lot of time.

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  • Bright, lifted, stony, fresh and vibrant, with a peppery red fruit profile, texturally, the wine is fine. It is concentrated, clean and youthful. At least another decade or more of cellaring is warranted.

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  • By Josh Raynolds
    January/February 2007, IWC Issue #130, (See more on Vinous...)

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  • By Jon Rimmerman
    1/17/2008, (See more on Garagiste...)

    (ERMITE Chapoutier) Ermite Magnum Dear Friends, The price of this wine has become so bizarrely expensive that I still can’t figure out what’s going on? Case in point, I was just offered a parcel of 750mls at a higher price than this lot of magnums? Maybe it’s the allure of the potential “100pts&rdquo? One has to wonder, if a wine like this came to market in 1961, would it now rival Jaboulet’s La Chapelle for complexity, snail-like ageing and prestige? This wine has so much pure minerality and extract that it should outlive all but a handful of 2005 examples from any wine region in the world. In magnum, it has a chance to last 50 years...at peak. The only wine I can remember tasting that had this much Syrah-based material was a 1950s version of La Chapelle that I tasted in Austria ten or so years ago. At the time, I didn’t think anything would ever rival its slathered grit but the 2005 l’Ermite has done just that. There’s not much to say - this lot is directly from Chapoutier’s cellar with perfect provenance at what is now a lot less per magnum less than current US discount pricing - sounds like an investment opportunity to me: VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED for a wine that should rival the 2005 Bordeaux First Growths for longevity and complexity. This parcel has perfect provenance directly from the cellars at Chapoutier: 2005 Chapoutier Ermitage l’Ermite 1.5lt (WA96-100) Thank you, Jon Rimmerman Garagiste Seattle, WA Rhone5620

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