Yann Chave
Yann Chave said that he’ll “always take ripe vintages over ones that are less so,” and he’s loving the recent five-year string, from 2015 through 2019, that provided weather that suits his preferences. He did express the caveat that 2015 “might turn out to be another 2010,” a vintage that he said “is still taking a long time to unfold,” and “we’re now pretty much out of the fruit stage,” so not really his personal style. The big issue for Chave in 2019, as was the case with all of his colleagues in the immediate area, was the horrific hail damage of June 15, which lasted “only about 20 minutes, but the wind was over 100 kilometers per hour and the hailstones were the size of tennis balls.” The crop loss for vines (as well as the region’s invaluable apricot and peach trees) was, in many places “total, 100%. All gone.” In Chave’s case, he “lost 50% of the red grapes and 10% of the white, almost all in Chassis. Hermitage, the hill, was fine because the storm moved quickly to the east and along the Isère River.”
From Northern Rhône: A First Look at the 2019s (May 2020) by Josh Raynolds
2019 Hermitage
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