Chapoutier, Ermitage Meal Vintage:2010 great concentration

great concentration

most notably with his blind comparisons with First Growth to demonstrate that Sena stands shoulder to shoulder with Old World icons

silky tannins provide the backdrop as the 2001 opens up in the glass

Look for four decades or more of luxuriant satisfaction

Great care was required to keep the leaves and the clusters healthy

Chapoutier, Ermitage Meal Vintage:2010 great concentrationEven inkier in color than the 2010, the 2009 Ermitage le Meal is as good as Hermitage gets. Locked and loaded with phenomenal notes of jammy black raspberries, creme de cassis, crushed violets, smoked earth and spice, it's thick and unctuous on the palate, with incredible density, a huge mid palate and a layered, multi dimensional, seamless, elegant texture that just keeps you coming back and begging for another sip. More hedonistic and voluptuous