Chapoutier, Ermitage Meal Vintage:2010 pepper and earthy notes

pepper and earthy notes

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Great care was required to keep the leaves and the clusters healthy

but it's not necessarily better

Chapoutier, Ermitage Meal Vintage:2010 pepper and earthy notesEven inkier in color than the 2010, the 2009 Ermitage le Meal is as good as Hermitage gets. Locked and loaded with phenomenal notes of jammy black raspberries, creme de cassis, crushed violets, smoked earth and spice, it's thick and unctuous on the palate, with incredible density, a huge mid palate and a layered, multi dimensional, seamless, elegant texture that just keeps you coming back and begging for another sip. More hedonistic and voluptuous