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Etienne Guigal, Ermitage Ex-Voto Blanc 2013
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Description
L'Ermitage「Ex-Voto」白酒僅在特殊年份生產。它具有非常豐富的香氣和複雜性。鼻子中充滿了合歡花、蜂蜜和烤香的味道。
Tasting notes
Reviewed by: Jeb Dunnuck
The 2013 Hermitage Ex Voto Blanc is a head-turner that offers sensational notes of buttered stone fruits, charcoal, toasted bread, toasted nuts and freshly crushed rocks. Take Marsanne and filter it through a bed of rocks, and you’d have an idea of what this beauty tastes like. Full-bodied, thick, unctuous and concentrated, it’s certainly one of the most exciting dry whites coming from the Northern Rhône Valley today.
Reviewed by: Jeb Dunnuck
More tight, focused and reserved than the 2012, the 2013 Hermitage Ex Voto Blanc is nevertheless an incredible effort that sports serious notes of white peach, citrus blossom, charcoal and crushed rock-like minerality. It’s a concentrated, full-bodied, laser-focused white Hermitage that has a stacked mid-palate, bright acidity and no lack of structure. It has a ways to go before bottling, but it's certainly starting from a good point.
Reviewed by: Jeb Dunnuck
The 2013 Hermitage Ex Voto Blanc has gained a touch more flesh and density since I tasted it last year. Thick, rich, concentrated and with bright acidity, it offers the classic caramelized stone fruits, honeycomb and minerality that this cuvee always exhibits. I’ll most likely taste this again from barrel next year, but it’s in the same ballpark as the 2012 in terms of quality.
Reviewed by: Josh Raynolds
(aged for 30 months in all new oak barrels) Brilliant yellow. A powerful, seductively perfumed bouquet evokes poached pear, peach nectar, honey, smoky lees and sweet butter. Offers fleshy, palate-staining orchard and pit fruit and buttery brioche and honeysuckle flavors, plus a vanilla note that emerges stealthily on the back half. Finishes with superb focus and mineral-driven persistence, leaving a suave floral note behind.
About the Producer
In 1946, Etienne Guigal founded Château Guigal in the village of Ampuis, the winemaking heart of the Rhône. The village of Ampuis is rich in history, with vineyards that are over 2,400 years old and buildings that still date back to Roman times, and it was here that Etienne Guigal arrived in 1923 at the age of 14. He decided to devote himself to winemaking, which he did for more than 67 years. In 1961, the young Marcel Guigal took over the management of the estate from his father. Thanks to Marcel's efforts, Château Guigal began to acquire some well-known wineries and grew in strength.
