There are two wines from the stables of Maison Chapoutier, a red which is 100% Syrah and a white made from 100% Marsanne. The fruit for both wines are grown on the Meal hillside in the Hermitage appellation and the vines are of some age, mostly over 50 years old. The story of the Hermitage appellation was recounted in the entry on Jaboulet's Hermitage La Chapelle. I tasted this red at last year's Wine and Dine Festival. The fruit for this wine comes from even older plants (average age >80 yrs) and were hand harvested and then destemmed before fermentation in concrete tanks for 4 weeks with temperature kept under 32degC. The free run wine is then transferred to new and one year old casks for 18 to 20 months maturation.
AS for this wine, it was ruby with a rich (yet slightly savoury) blueberry nose. The palate was sweet with rich berry fruit giving way to a nice tannic backbone giving structure to the whole wine.
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