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2010 Ermitage Le Pavillon

Wine Details
Place of Origin

France

Hermitage

Southern Rhône

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

Syrah/Shiraz

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Chapoutier's long-time commercial director Pierre-Henri Morel characterized 2011 as "a vintage of freshness and forward fruit, with good minerality and vineyard expression" up and down the Rhone Valley. The wines generally don't have the power and concentration to be long agers, he said, but "that's what you buy 2010 and 2009 for. You need vintages like 2011 for drinking young and also fro restaurants, while the vintages like '10, '09 and '05 are for collectors. Like most of the producers that I visited this year Morel emphasized that restaurants are selling wines "younger and younger all over the world, even at the most prestigious ones in France."

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According to general manager Pierre-Henri Morel, "to sum up 2009 and 2010 quickly, '09 is about the year and '10 is about the vineyard." Expanding on that thought, he added that "the ripeness of 2009 is the biggest marker of the year, while the freshness of 2010 allows the villages and their vineyards to express themselves more clearly." That said, he described the 2009s, at their best, as sensual wines that are easy to appreciate because of their richness.