Chapoutier, Ermitage Meal Vintage:2010 Seventeen percent was fermented in

Seventeen percent was fermented in large

Readers may remark on my relatively mean scores

a wine that ultimately is produced only about once every four years or so

intense and powerful

Chapoutier, Ermitage Meal Vintage:2010 Seventeen percent was fermented inEven 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