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Domaine J.L. Chave

Gerard Chave picked a tiny crop (25 hectoliters per hectare) of superripe fruit at the beginning of September, later than most of his colleagues in Hermitage. "An elevated pH is not a problem if there's the glycerine to compensate for it," Chave told me in November. And there is no arguing with the extraordinary richness of Chave's red and white wines in 2003. As always, I tasted the young wines in their various components. A sample of wine from the lieu-dit Bessards was the best single barrel of young Hermitage I've tasted in recent memory. As to the 2003 blanc, Chave compares it to earlier vintages like 1961 and 1952, but he admits that the new year is really without precedent. It's hard to imagine another Hermitage producer offering 2003s with this magical combination of sweetness and verve. The wines are legends in the making.

From 2003 and 2002 Northern Rhone Wines (Jan 2005) by Stephen Tanzer

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2001 Hermitage

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