Guigal, Ermitage Ex Voto other_regions_italy showing tons of intensity

showing tons of intensity

Readers may remark on my relatively mean scores

but on July 19th everything changed and the year was saved by some 40 liters of rain

This is an explosive and absolutely exuberant expression of Nebbiolo from a vineyard site in La Morra near M

Guigal, Ermitage Ex Voto other_regions_italy showing tons of intensityThe 2010 Hermitage Ex Voto continues to top out on my scale. This extraordinary Hermitage has more minerality and delineation than the 2009, as well as overflowing aromas and flavors of creme de cassis, jammy blackberries, violets, graphite and wood smoke. Massively concentrated, full bodied, decadent, layered and sexy, it needs short term cellaring but should be just about immortal in the cellar.