Jaune profond
Nez fleur lourde et fruit jaune fume
Bouche ample grasse cœur de bouche énorme et finale épicé type tonka vanille noble et note tourbe avec une belle amertume
Attention vin de repas — 6 years ago
150m / red clay, wow aromatics, raspberry. Pepper. — 7 years ago
50 marsanne 50 roussanne nice balance Grand Tasting2016 — 8 years ago
Rich, elegant and masculine. Strikes me as more ermitage than cote rotie. Modern style. — 10 years ago
Fantastic wine! Exotic fruits, vanilla & velvety finish. A bit sweet maybe but still dry. — 5 years ago
Excellent, crisp and pleasant with foie gras — 7 years ago
I love this fucking wine! — 8 years ago
Rhone like, a bit waxy but still vivacious, melon and stone fruit — 10 years ago
An unbelievably dense, Hermitaged Bordeaux. Cab from Chateau and Syrah from Ermitage in an ode to their past. Dark and luscious. — 10 years ago
What a nose!!! — 11 years ago
This wine is very,very good. — 12 years ago
Jeb 96, not as big I expected considering his review which is below, great nose but I’d take several Paso Syrahs over this one, especially at the price point of $150.00 on release, good but more med body. I’d grab the Rotie Cellars at $30-$40 before this one, Coming mostly from the Sta. Rita Hills (there’s a splash from the Watch Hill Vineyard) and a blend of 91% Syrah, 5% Grenache, 2% Viognier, and 2% Petite Sirah, the 2016 Syrah 1/1 is the flagship Syrah release. It was 60% destemmed and aged 25 months in a new Ermitage 400-liter barrel. Its saturated purple color gives way to a brilliant, full-bodied, seamless effort that has textbook Syrah notes of bloody black and blue fruits, lavender, game, chocolate, and ground pepper. It's a big, rich, meaty, beautifully pure Syrah to drink over the coming 10-15 years or more. — 5 years ago
Light ruby in color. Dramatic aromatic lift with notes of red cherry, freshly cut roses, sage, menthol, and mulch with oak spice accents. Mid-weight with good acidity and very long, bitter finish. Sourced from the oldest vines in Seven Springs Vineyard and representing Evening Land’s smallest production bottling, the yields are very low as the vines are own rooted and slowly succumbing to phylloxera. The grapes are fermented 100% whole cluster then aged 16 months in 100% new French oak Ermitage barrels. This is a lovely wine that is about subtlety rather than sappy fruit. 12.5% ABV. $100. — 6 years ago
Awesome!!! — 7 years ago
Green olives and sour cherries. Mild tannins. Young but approachable. — 8 years ago
Apricots, no candy flavors, 100 year old Marsanne vines from George Lelektsoglou, drank with the man himself. Extraordinary. Subtle and endlessly complex but approachable. Old style, with no attention paid to the current stylistic trends. Rustic, historic, beautiful. Peaches and delicate dried leaves. — 9 years ago
1998 - pretty nice. — 9 years ago
Another example of why #ermitage #hermitage rains as one of the greatest places on earth for Syrah — 10 years ago
This is a wine only made in outstanding vintages. 97% Syrah and 3% Viognier aged 4 years in 100% new French Oak (Ermitage barrel). Very luscious aromas of cinnamon, vanilla, tar, cigar box, rum raisin cake, fig, and espresso. Very present mid pallet and long tannic finish. A wine with tremendous aging potential. — 10 years ago
A grand white from Wallis! — 11 years ago
Lois Hale
Both Mom and Dad liked it. — 5 years ago