Chapoutier, Ermitage Meal Vintage:2009 don’t think about touching bottles

don’t think about touching bottles until at least 2020

The 2007 Vinedo Chadwick has a lot of vanilla-y new oak on the nose although there is plenty of voluptuous black fruit to support it

intense and powerful

fresh pastry

with touches of leather

Chapoutier, Ermitage Meal Vintage:2009 don’t think about touching bottlesEven inkier in color than the 2010, the 2009 Ermitage le Meal is as good as Hermitage gets. Locked and loaded with phenomenal notes of jammy black raspberries, creme de cassis, crushed violets, smoked earth and spice, it's thick and unctuous on the palate, with incredible density, a huge mid palate and a layered, multi dimensional, seamless, elegant texture that just keeps you coming back and begging for another sip. More hedonistic and voluptuous