Steve
TANZER (International Wine Cellar / USA) Février / Mars
2000
Robe plus profonde, bronze doré. Le nez libère
des arômes plus sauvages de gibier et de truffe blanche.
Cet hermitage encore plus velouté et plus concentré,
montre cependant une très belle fraîcheur ; il
offre des flaveurs puissantes de gibier et de sucre d'orge.
Doté d'un caractère mâcheux il possède
un bel extrait. Un vin d'une persistance extraordinaire, peut-être
le plus long que j'ai dégusté lors de ma récente
tournée dans la Vallée du Rhône. 96(+?).
Steve
TANZER (International Wine Cellar / USA) Février /
Mars 2000
Deeper golden-bronze color. Wilder aromas of game and white
truffle. Even sweeter and more concentrated yet still fresh
; powerful game and barley sugar flavors. Chewy with extract.
A wine of extraordinary persistence, perhaps the longest I
tasted on my recent tour of the Rhône Valley. 96 (+?)
Robert
M. PARKER Jr (THE WINE ADVOCATE / USA) Novembre 1999
Nectar lovers will be amazed by the richness of Chapoutier's
1997 and 1998 Hermitage Vin de Paille. The fully mature grapes
spend two months on straw mats before being pressed. Both
wines exhibit a light gold color, with textures resembling
molasses. Despite being aged in 100% new oak, no wood is discernible.
Their astonishing white truffle-scented noses include notions
of coffee, marmalade, and crème brûlée.
Extraordinarily dense and thick, with surprisingly good underlying
acidity, these are remarkable wines. Sadly, only 100 cases
exist of each. Both will last for 100 years, but they will
be impossible to resist in their youth.
Robert M. PARKER Jr (THE
WINE ADVOCATE / USA) February 1999
The 1997 and 1996 Hermitage Vin de Paille are both huge, thick,
unctuously-textured, sweet wines that will last for 50 or
more years. What I found striking about the 1996 Vin de Paille
was that the nose was identical to white truffles, something
I had had my share of a week earlier when I was in Piedmont.
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