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Paul Jaboulet Aine Hermitage La Chapelle 2010

Reviews

97+ -Jeb Dunnuck -

The 2010 Hermitage La Chapelle is a big, inky, blockbuster styled effort that’s just now starting to enter its drink window. A huge perfume of black (and some blue) fruits, rendered bacon fat, iron, and graphite notes all lead to a powerful, full-bodied Hermitage that has incredibly purity and depth, awesome concentration, and building yet polished tannins. It’s an incredible wine that is still going to benefit from another 4-5 years of bottle age, and I suspect it will see its 50th birthday in fine form.

96+ -Robert Parker's Wine Advocate -

It should be fascinating to compare the potentially legendary 2010 Hermitage La Chapelle with the prodigious 2009 La Chapelle over the next 30-40 years. About 20% new oak was used, and, as were previous vintages, the 2010 was aged 15 months prior to bottling. This black/purple-colored beauty is revealing more weight and richness than it did last year from barrel, along with great precision, stunning minerality and enormous quantities of blackberry, cassis, beef blood and smoked game intertwined with hints of graphite and acacia flowers. With good acidity and richness as well as abundant, but ripe, well-integrated tannin, this great wine equals the titan produced in 2009. Forget it for 7-10 years and drink it over the following 30-50 years.

96 -Decanter -

Noticeably more evolved than the 2016, taking on some air-dried meat aromas. The characteristic smokiness of Hermitage is starting to make itself more apparent now, with cigar wrapper, bonfire ash and fireworks swirling from the glass. Dense and intense on the palate, with driving, powerful, mouthcoating tannins. This still needs time to temper the tannic force, and will take on more complexity, so hands off until 2030 - if you can wait that long! From 45 to 90-year-old vines across lieux-dits Les Roucoules, Le Méal, Les Greffieux, Les Bessards and Varogne. Aged in French oak barrels, 20% new.

96 -International Wine Cellar -

Inky, glass-staining ruby. An exotically perfumed bouquet evokes dark fruit liqueur, smoky Indian spices, potpourri and cracked pepper. Deep but lively, offering palate-coating blueberry and cherry-cola flavors and a sexy note of candied violet. This wine opens up dramatically with a little air and shows a very suave blend of power and finesse. An energizing mineral note comes on strong on the endless finish, which features sexy floral and spicecake nuances.

94 -James Suckling -

94 -Wine Spectator -

Technical Details

Blend Syrah
Winemaker Caroline Frey
Country France
Region Rhone Valley
Appellation Hermitage
Vineyard lieux-dits Les Roucoules, Le Méal, Les Greffieux, Les Bessards and Varogne
Farming Method Biodynamic Practices
Aging / Cooperage 20% new French oak barrels
Alcohol 14%

Paul Jaboulet Aine Hermitage La Chapelle 2010

Name: Paul Jaboulet Aine Hermitage La Chapelle 2010
Brand: First Bottle
SKU: WBWC17063
Price: 174.95 USD
Availability: InStock

Rhone Blends | Rhone Valley

JD97+, WA96+, DC96, IWC96, JS94, WS94

Biodynamic Practices

$300.00

$174.95

750ML

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La Chapelle is assembled through a barrel-by-barrel selection from the estate's holdings across Hermitage's premier sites, principally Le Méal and Les Bessards, with approximately 20% new oak and 15 months of aging before bottling. The 2010 vintage in the Northern Rhône produced wines of exceptional clarity and precision, leaner and more structured than the opulent 2009 and all the more compelling for it. Robert Parker awarded it 97+ points, describing it as massively concentrated and dense, with sensational minerality alongside dark fruits, bacon, black olive, beef blood, and graphite, building in the glass and showing more mid-palate density with time. Parker's note from barrel was equally enthusiastic, citing wonderfully crisp acids, a well-focused and delineated style, and abundant blackberry, cassis, camphor, licorice, subtle smoke, and crushed rock. Now 15 years from harvest, this is a wine to either decant generously or continue cellaring for another decade, with a drinking window that extends comfortably through 2045 and beyond.

About The Producer

Originally founded by Antoine Jaboulet in 1834, the domaine eventually took ownership of the finest appellations of the northern Rhone Valley, including Hermitage and Crozes Hermitage, as well as Saint-Joseph, Cornas and Saint-Peray. The Jaboulet family sold the company to the Frey family in 2006 and Caroline Frey is now at the helm and the wines could not be better.

$300.00

$174.95

750ML

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