L'Ermite 2014
Rhône Valley - Ermitage
Ratings
Tasting notes
Appearance:
Garnet-red with carmine tints.
Nose:
Notes of wild fruit and graphite.
Palate:
On the palate, aromas of blackcurrant jelly, bramble leaves and pencil lead. According to the vintage, the wine can be kept from 30 to 60 years, indeed from 50 to 75 years.
Sommelier's advice: Beef, game All cheeses
Grape variety/varieties:
100% Syrah.
Harvest:
Late hand-harvesting in order to obtain optimal alcohol content.
Soil:
Situated at the top of the Hermitage hill, around the chapel, in a place named the Ermite. The vines are 80 years old and are on granitic soils which are very poor.
Vinification:
The harvest which is 100% destemmed, is matured in concrete tanks. Fermentation lasts around 4 weeks, to obtain soft and stable tannins to keep the wine for a very long time. The temperature does not exceed 32°C to enable good quality extraction. To make this wine, only the free-run juice is used.
Ageing:
Free run juice is immediately transferred into new and one-year-old casks to be matured from 18 to 20 months.
Alcohol content:
14
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