Chapoutier, Ermitage Ermite Size:3L black cherry

black cherry

Keep an eye open for these two vintages

This is certainly impressive but the Griotte has that something extra in 2015

tobacco and licorice

Readers may remark on my relatively mean scores

Chapoutier, Ermitage Ermite Size:3L black cherryThis feels like an entire magnum of wine was somehow, crammed into a single bottle. Inky in color, this is so dense, it fills your mouth, coats your palate, staining your teeth and palate with a massive wall of fruit, tannin and crushed stones. There is a fabulous purity to the fruit and a lushness to the texture that lets you know, this wine means business. 2 3 decades are needed for this to really come around. But it will get there. However, unless