Tasted 28 September 2025
Northern Rhône · Hermitage
A beautiful expression, with meaty jerky and salami flavors intermingling wonderfully with black-red fruit. Leather, garrigue, mushroom, muddled strawberry, black cherry, red and black currant, and earth. In a good…
Butterscotch, apricot, honey, and orange blossom. A compelling wine, and though on the downswing of its evolution, it carries the perfect balance of savory, ripeness, and dry elements that all make…
Poised and balanced for such a young wine, the Chave St. Joseph offers black raspberry, soil, and brush elements that are indeed primary and linear, but steer clear of overly juvenile angularity.…
Notes of apricot, lemon, white peach, honey, limestone, and olive oil touch off an oily but properly dry delivery of controlled (and fairly restrained) flavors that roll along the palate in a…
