2012 Hermitage, La Chapelle, Paul Jaboulet Aîné, Rhône Sustainable sweet currants and plums

sweet currants and plums

it has a textbook Haut-Brion nose of ripe black fruit

Once again

Lagrange contained the highest proportion of Cabernet Sauvignon in its blend since 2000

The nose opens with a delightful aroma of freshly baked Garibaldi biscuits

2012 Hermitage, La Chapelle, Paul Jaboulet Aîné, Rhône Sustainable sweet currants and plumsThe grand vin is the 2012 Hermitage la Chapelle, and it lives up to the billing in 2012. Coming mostly from the Meal and aged in just 20% new French oak, it's a blockbuster that exhibits thrilling, mineral drenched notes of spiced dark fruits, beef blood, black olive and toast. Full bodied, deep, layered and incredibly concentrated, it has a stacked mid palate and enough tannin to warrant another 4 5 years of bottle age. It will have 2 3 decades of