Chapoutier, Ermitage Meal Vintage:2010 As with most of the

As with most of the single-vineyard wines from the vintage

spices and graphite on the nose

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

Seventeen percent was fermented in large

intense and powerful

Chapoutier, Ermitage Meal Vintage:2010 As with most of theEven 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