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Hermitage Winery

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Floral, Aromatic Full, Lush

Hermitage Hermitage “Chante Alouette” Chapoutier -1996

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This turned out not to be a favorite, the wine seems more advanced and aged than its age suggests; classic nose of honeyed fruit and candle wax, exotic and intense aromas that evoke white flowers, but at the same time spicy and a bit hot; sweet in the front of the mouth with lots of honeyed fruit flavors, spicy and exotic, but the wine has a hard, alcoholic undercurrent that detracts from its otherwise exotic nature; the finish is, as a consequence, too alcoholic and coarse for me, and I have had better wines from this producer. (14.5/20) 1 Note

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Spicy Earthy Big Powerful

Hermitage Hermitage Chave -1994

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This wine is now ripe and ready, very sweet and perfumed nose with rich aromas of flowers and paraffin, smoke, herbs, but mostly flowers; sweet and ripe in the mouth; almost dense; lots of vanilla bean flavors; hints of licorice; good lemony acidity provides focus and freshness, but this is a dense, bordering on heavy wine; unique as all of these wines are though. (17/20) 1 Note

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Hermitage Hermitage Guigal -1982

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Sweet nose, fresh oranges and ripe sweet fruit aromas, sweet herbs and green spices, smoky and earthen; sweet and smooth in the mouth, lots of ripe fruit; spicy and peppery; hot with plenty of acidity making the wine a bit aggressive; a bit steely and hard at the finish, losing some of its sweetness and richness at the end. (16.5/20) 1 Note

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Floral, Aromatic Full, Lush

Hermitage Hermitage “Chante Allouete” Chapoutier -1982

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Served at the same time with the Guigal above at Jim and Deb Cianciolo’s summer dinner party; this wine has a much sweeter and deeper nose than the Guigal, aromas of honey, sweet herbs, beeswax, white pepper, ripe and rich; same in the mouth; lots of ripe and rich fruit flavors, exotic herbs, caramel and hints of honeyed fruit; at the same time spicy with good acidity; fresh lemons; smooth and silky at the finish; this wine has more depth and better poise than the Guigal. (18/20) 1 Note

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