Producer: Paul Jaboulet Aine  
Region: Hermitage, Rhone, France  
Varietal: Syrah  
Year: 2013 

"A much more structured even austere Hermitage than the La Petite Chapelle release the 2013 Hermitage la Chapelle came from minuscule yields of ten to 18 hectoliters per hectare and was aged 15-18 months in 20% new French oak. Not harvested until the 12th of October it offers a sensational bouquet of blackberry and black raspberry fruits powdered rock gunpowder and pepper. Medium to full-bodied with good (though maybe not great) levels of concentration it has high yet beautifully polished tannin integrated acidity and terrific cut and focus on the finish. Give bottles 4-5 years of cellaring and enjoy over the following two decades." 

"Bright purple. Sexy highly perfumed scents of ripe boysenberry cherry cola smoky Indian spices and potpourri take on a vibrant mineral quality in the glass. Smooth expansive and impressively deep showing a surprisingly delicate touch to the sweet black and blue fruit floral pastille and spicecake flavors. Smooth slow-building tannins come up slowly and add focus to an extremely long juicy mineral- and floral-driven finish."

Alcohol: 13.5% 

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