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

Seventeen percent was fermented in large

both suffering from hard tannin

offering intense black raspberry and bitter cherry flavors that unfurl slowly and become sweeter with aeration

spices and graphite on the nose

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