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2009 Domaine Bernard Faurie Hermitage Blanc
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2009 Domaine Bernard Faurie Hermitage Blanc

Producer: Domaine Bernard Faurie
Style: White Wine
Grape Type: Marsanne
Origin: France
Region: Rhone
Appellation: Hermitage

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93 Points | International Wine Cellar , January/February 2011

Light gold. An exotic, highly perfumed nose evokes poached pear, yellow plum and honey, with a dusty mineral overlay. Juicy and rich on entry but firmer in the mid-palate, offering a range of candied citrus and orchard fruit flavors and a touch of bitter orange pith. A mineral quality lingers on the lush, penetrating finish, which strongly echoes the orange note. Faurie's white wines are made from 100% marsanne.

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Marsanne

Marsanne, the most widely planted white grape of the northern Rhone Valley, has a long history-- not in single varietal bottlings, but rather as a blending grape. In Hermitage, Marsanne is blended with Roussane to produce the white wine of the appellation; in our opinion, white Hermitage is one of the most overlooked great wines of the world. Incidentally, along with Roussane, up to...
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