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Chapoutier M. Ermitage le Pavillon 2003

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Winery:
M. Chapoutier
Varietal:
Syrah
Region:
France > Rhone Valley > Northern Rhône > Hermitage
Type:
Red Wine
Drink Dates:
Drink Now - 2019
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User Tags:  berry, bramble fruits, fruit, intense, rich, black currant, blackberry, spicy, color descriptors, concentrated 


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Coming from a Granite hillside in the north of France's Rhone Valley, Hermitage is one of the world's greatest expressions of the Syrah grape. Blessed with a full southern exposition, the hill of Hermitage allows the vines to fully ripen, yet its poor soils stress the vines, reducing yields and ensuring a remarkable complexity in the finished wines. The wines tend to be medium to medium-full bodied with bright acidity and velvety tannins that are enmeshed in slightly gamey, olive scented fruit that recalls black raspberries and boysenberries.

Winemakers Notes

Vinification
The grapes ferment in open wooden vats after total destemming. From one to two daily treadings ensure a good extraction of the tannins. The temperature of fermentation varies between 20 and 32°C. Maceration lasts 3 or 4 weeks.

Maturing
Maturing goes off in oak casks (50 % new) during 15-18 months. The wine is regularly drawn of and clarified with no filtering or fining.

Tasting
Colour : Deep garnet red, with purple highlights.
Noze : First : tar, slighly closed and smoky. Second : raspberry, blackberry, walnut.
Mouth : Complex, read more...

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Rating: 95/100 - As reviewed by International Wine Cellar in Issue 124, January/February 2006 Bright, deep red. Spicy, vibrant and tangy nose offers redcurrant, wild strawberry and minerally raspberry tones. Impressively fresh and nervy on the palate, with lift and thrust to the exuberant red fruit tones. As this opens in the glass, the fruit tones take a darker turn toward blackberry and cassis, also picking up notes of graphite and licorice. The deeply concentrated, spicy and wonderfully long, sweet finish is framed by huge but remarkably integrated tannins.


 

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Rating: 95/100 - As reviewed by The Wine Advocate in Issue 163


 

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Rating: (99-100) - As reviewed in Wine Advocate # 156 on Dec-04


 

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Rating: 95/100 - As reviewed by Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar on Jan-06


 

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