Chapoutier, Ermitage Meal Vintage:2010 but it's not necessarily better

but it's not necessarily better

The 2004 Blanc des Millenaires offers a striking combination of freshness and the complexity that develops in bottle

the 2014 Proprietary Red needs a little coaxing to reveal slowly unfurling notions of warm black cherries

great concentration

silky tannins provide the backdrop as the 2001 opens up in the glass

Chapoutier, Ermitage Meal Vintage:2010 but it's not necessarily betterEven 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