Cart 2003 E. Guigal Ermitage Ex-Voto
Average Price: $493.49 
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| Style: | Red Wine |
| Grape Type: | Syrah/Shiraz |
| Region: | Rhone |
About E. Guigal
The locomotive of the northern Rhône Valley, Guigal is by a wide margin the largest producer of Côte-Rôtie. Guigal's limited and costly single-vineyard "La-La" wines -- La Mouline, La Landonne and La Turque -- are among the most coveted red wines in the world, with extraordinary a... more
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Opaque dark ruby. Incredibly rich, deep and pungent on the nose, offering an outsized bouquet of kirsch, blackberry, cassis and musky cured tobacco. I commented that this smelled like a great port and Guigal, who clearly adores this wine, said "Well, 1945 Taylor is a wine I'd walk miles for." Powerful, deeply concentrated and sweet, with explosive cherry, plum and dark berry flavors, notes of bitter chocolate and exotic spices, and molten tannins. I'm not sure how you'd serve this monster but it sure is fun to drink.
Bright, full, saturated ruby. Explosive aromas of black raspberry, blackberry and licorice, with a suggestion of medicinal austerity. Then raw and primary but incredibly thick, with a richness verging on port-like. Almost too big for the mouth. Actually more of a fruit bomb on the nose today and altogether more serious on the palate. If the 2003 La Landonne is an essence of syrah, this is an essence of Hermitage. Truly a black hole of a wine: there's virtually no sign of the new oak, and the wine has a sappiness that belies its pH of close to 4. 0. Philippe says the Guigals were the first to harvest Hermitage in 2003, and yet this wine is a whopping 15. 5% alcohol!
Saturated ruby-red color. Explosively fragrant nose combines sweet blackberry, blackcurrant and oak spices. Wonderfully intense and full-flavored, with wild notes of raw meat, garrigue, iron and tobacco enhancing the lush, sweet berry fruit. Elemental, pure and singular Hermitage, as sweet as it is meaty and as lush as it is structured, easily handling its 15.5% alcohol. "The barrel is too small for what's inside," is the way Philippe described it.
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