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Production was off by 50% here in 2008, Yann Chave told me, and on top of that there will be no 2008 Hermitage because he sold his production to the negoce. "There was a lot of rain at the beginning of September and after making the selection there just wasn't much fruit left. It's like the vintage that wasn't," he said. Chave has chosen to use demi-muids in his cellar rather than barriques because the thickness of the staves in a demi-muid is 42 millimeters, while for almost all barriques it's 27 millimeters. So there's a more rapid uptake of oxygen in the smaller barrels, "which speeds up the fermentation and also makes it more violent. Slowing down the oxidation process by using demi-muids is essential to being able to control the pace of the fermentation and extend it, thus getting more complexity and more integrated tannins." At the end of our tasting Chave and I tried his 2005 and 2004 Crozes-Hermitage Le Rouvre, and the '04 is in an especially pretty window right now, with a scented, spicy bouquet that reminded me of something from Vosne-Romanee. The 2005 shows far more density, structure and power right now and really should be held for at least another four or five years.

From 2009 and 2008 Northern Rhone Wines (Jan 2011) by Josh Raynolds

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