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Hermitage 2016

AOP Hermitage White

Awards

  • 94 Pts Wine Spectator
  • 94 pts Jeb Dunnuck
  • 94 Pts Wine Enthusiast
  • 90 pts Wine Advocate

Tasting

“Offers a big blast of honeyed orchard fruits, quince, acacia flowers, and white peach in a flamboyant, rich, layered style. This opulent, bombastic beauty has full-bodied richness, a layered, ripe, opulent texture, no sensation of weight or heaviness, and a great finish.” Jeb Dunnuck – Dec. 2018

Food & wine pairings

Cassolette of Saint-Jacques
Coq au champagne

Detailed information

Vintage

After a particularly mild winter, vines came up early to maturity. The hot summer in the Northern Rhone Valley kepted the vines very healthy, and the mid-harvest rains favored a maturing without stress. If the volumes are lower than 2015, the 2016 Laurus Hermitage is a great vintage, with hints of honey and caramelized orange.

Grape varieties

Marsanne

Terroir

Eastern sector of the hill of Hermitage, on alluvial terraces at 200 meters in altitude.

Winemaking

Manual harvest from September 27th 2016. Fermentation is initiated in tank before the whole cuvée is placed in 275lt Laurus oak barrels, both new and 1-year old, to finish the alcoholic fermentation followed by the malo-lactic fermentation. The wine then age 15 months on fine lees.
Production: 855 bottles, 60 magnums and 10 jeroboams
Bottling date: April 27th, 2018

Service

Serve at around 10° to 12°C. Recommend opening around 2 hrs prior to serving
Best Enjoyed between 2018 and 2033

Degree of alcohol

13% vol.
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