Chapoutier, Ermitage Meal Vintage:2010 the 2014 Proprietary Red needs

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

Great care was required to keep the leaves and the clusters healthy

Elegant and restrained in style

most notably with his blind comparisons with First Growth to demonstrate that Sena stands shoulder to shoulder with Old World icons

Chapoutier, Ermitage Meal Vintage:2010 the 2014 Proprietary Red needsEven 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