M. Chapoutier Crozes-Hermitage "Les Varonniers" 2016
Descripción
M. Chapoutier Crozes-Hermitage "Les Varonniers" se elabora con las viñas más antiguas de la denominación Crozes Hermitage, al norte del Ródano. Las viñas se ubican en laderas graníticas con orientación sureste al final de la colina de Hermitage. Es una versión más moderna y con vinos ricos, densos y concentrados.
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Grown on the western-facing portion of the Hermitage hill, on the same underlying granite as les Bessards, the 2016 Crozes Hermitage les Varonniers makes a mockery of most Crozes-Hermitages, coming across more like Hermitage itself. Aged in a mix of barriques and demi-muids, it frames cassis fruit with hints of pencil shavings and crushed stone. Full-bodied and concentrated, it shows granite-like reserve in its powerful expression and long, dusty finish.
On another level, the inky colored 2016 Crozes-Ermitage Les Varonniers comes from the granite hillside just beside Hermitage hill and is more Hermitage than Crozes. It has a huge nose of currants, smoked earth, graphite, pepper, and cured meats. This carries to a rich, powerful Crozes that has a real sense of minerality, beautiful mid-palate depth, ripe, present tannins, and a great, great finish. Aged 18 months in 20% new French oak (a mix of Burgundy barrels and demi-muids), it has two decades or more of longevity ahead of it.
Michel Chapoutier es uno de los más célebres elaboradores de vino en Francia. En constante expansión de horizontes, hunde sus raíces en la propiedad vitivinícola más grande del Ródano.
