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Wine tasting at Chapoutier

We stayed two days at a very nice hotel overlooking the Rhone river in the town of Tain l´Hermitage where quite few of the big producers have their "home".

One of them is Chapoutier who has a really nice shop/winetasting room in the middle of town.

We started off with some white wines in really big nice wine glasses;


Saint Joseph 2005 "Deschants" 100% Marsanne €13 P(+)
elegant granite smell, short taste a bit typical the grape
Hermitage 2005 "Chante-Alouette" 100% Marsanne €34 P
From the hillside above town, elegant, long, flowers
Condrieu "Invitare" 2006 100% Viognier € 27 P+
This is golden syrup, refined, subtle with perfect acidity, buy more!
Ermitage "De l'Orée" 2004 100% Marsanne €114 P-
Fantastic good white Marsanne peachy smell with long complex aftertaste
Then some really good reds based upon 100% Syrah (Shiraz);
Saint Joseph 2005 " Deschants" € 13 P+
Elegant red berries with firm body and taste
Cornas 2005 €25 P+
Sweaty red berries, long taste, more tannic than St Joseph
Hermitage "Monier de la Sizeranne" 2004 €40 P
Sweet dried fruit, raisins, prune long balanced taste, can be kept for 10 years
Hermitage "Monier de la Sizeranne" 2005 €46 P
Big enormous taste and body, much too young now wait at least 10 years
Cote Rotie "Les Becasses" 2005 €39 P+
Medium deep red, beetroot, wet wool, long big taste elegant
Ermitage "Le Pavillon" 2004 €114 P
Grown in pure granite soil, its Ab Fab, fantastic wonderful balance woah!
Ermitage "Le Pavillon" 1992 €100 P
Bad year but great wine, raisins, fantastic length, big and smooth

Picture of Hermitage which is basically the hillside behind Tain....

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