Yann Chave
Rhone writer John Livingstone Learmouth calls Yann Chave “one of the best young men to appear in the northern Rhone in the past dozen years” and we were certainly impressed by the wines we tasted at his winery in Mercurol. Since taking over management of the estate from his family, he has worked hard in the vineyard to improve quality, replanting certain parcels and moving away from using chemicals. Yann harvests late, to obtain maximum ripeness, but the wines retain balance. In the winery, only natural yeasts are used, and all the grapes are de-stemmed.
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Decanter (96)
Glass-staining purple colour. Incredibly powerful with searching perfume, leaf tea and glove leather behind the intense black fruits. Very fine and deep, perhaps just a touch too high in alcohol, a little overextracted. Phenomenal concentration and length however. A growling, brooding power, this could only be Hermitage. From vines of nearly 50 years of age grown organically on lieux-dits Beaumes and Péléat, matured in demi-muids with malolactic fermentation in barrel.Inc. VAT£721.49
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Decanter (96)
Glass-staining purple colour. Incredibly powerful with searching perfume, leaf tea and glove leather behind the intense black fruits. Very fine and deep, perhaps just a touch too high in alcohol, a little overextracted. Phenomenal concentration and length however. A growling, brooding power, this could only be Hermitage. From vines of nearly 50 years of age grown organically on lieux-dits Beaumes and Péléat, matured in demi-muids with malolactic fermentation in barrel.In Bond£582.00