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  Cave de Tain l'Hermitage wine crozes-hermitage saint-joseph hermitage saint-peray cornas vine rhone valley ...
Aromas are ripe, reminiscent of dried fruits, and the wine is rounded with relatively low acidity.
The young wine is kept for a short period on fine lees, and early bottling, before the summer heat, ensures that the wine retains all its elegance and finesse.
Hermitage : The grapes for this wine come from the oldest of our wines (at least 60 years) and the best " terroirs " for white wine, and are of exceptional quality and maturity.
www.cave-tain-hermitage.com /gb/vinification/blancs.html   (416 words)

  
 Rhone Wine Guide: Cote Rotie, Cornas, Condrieu, Hermitage, Chateauneuf du Pape
This is a wine made solely from the Viognier grape, a lovely variety, which is also used to add interest to Côte Rôtie.
Hermitage now has a fine reputation of its own, and accordingly it commands a price similar to many of the wines which it was once used to doctor.
The red wine itself may be a blend of up to thirteen different grape varieties, although in practice many of the top wines use only three or four.
www.thewinedoctor.com /regionalguides/rhone.shtml   (1641 words)

  
 SlowFood.it
Time was when the local growers sent their wine to Burgundy and Médoc, where it was an open secret that various châteaux pepped up their crus with a good measure of Hermitage, to enhance strength and colour.
Hermitage wines, or the reds, at any rate, which account for 70-80% of the total, owe everything to the syrah grape.
At the Tain wine co-operative, where since 1985 they have been producing between 300 and 1200 litres a year of vin de paille, depending on the vintage, by spreading out the grapes in cases, they point out that you need a full two kilograms of grapes to produce a 50-cl bottle of wine.
www.slowfood.com /img_sito/riviste/slowine/EN/01/hermitage1.html   (2648 words)

  
 Hermitage Wine Information, French Wine Guide in Cotes du Rhone
Hermitage was the favorite cru of the Tsar court in Russia.
Hermitage wines tolerate aging very well and become smooth and mellow when they mature.
Wines of the Rhone Valley by Robert Parker
www.terroir-france.com /region/rhone_hermitage.htm   (238 words)

  
 Food and Beverage International Magazine
The cooperative was created by 100 wine growers of the left bank of the Rhone, and was expanded once again, when the growers in St. Joseph, the growers on the right bank of the Rhone, joined the organization.
The range of 26 wines of Jaboulet have a reputation for quality and are exclusively from the Rhone Valley, all of which have full appelation.
The Crozes Hermitage Mule Blanche was aromatic, with bouquets of peach, pears, a slight touch of prunes, vanilla and truffles,would be great with cheese and strong meats.
www.fbworld.com /rhonevalley5.htm   (1337 words)

  
 Hermitage Wine Information
Red Hermitage wine is made solely from the Syrah grape, and has been famous in France for centuries.
Red Hermitage wines are known for their long life and robust flavor.
Hermitage goes very well with beef, game, and other hearty foods.
www.wineintro.com /types/hermitage.html   (164 words)

  
 SYRAH'S GREATEST HEIGHTS | Articles | Wine Enthusiast Magazine
The small production of all these wines, a complete contrast to the vast plantings of the southern Rhône, means that they can retain their place as niche wines.
Wines from good years seem capable of surviving almost forever and should not be touched before 10 years.
This evocatively named wine is ripe and creamy, deliciously flavored with peaches, apricots and nectarines and an undercurrent of spice and vanilla.
www.winemag.com /ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=Publishing&mod=Publications::Article&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=4&id=F3CB9FF0775C4AF182A4995A99601FAC   (2928 words)

  
 Wine Club Vol. 5 No. 4
Unfortunately, Etienne's wine career was seriously curtailed when he was afflicted with sudden and total blindness in 1961, an event that forced the young Marcel to join the family business as a teenager, devoting his formidable energy and talent to the art of wine.
This wine's clean, apple blossom scent and spring-like freshness epitomize the enjoyable, uncomplicated style of Chardonnay for which the Macon is justifiably renowned.
Nearly a third of all French wine is grown in the vast area of southern France known as the Languedoc.
www.winemonthclub.com /newsletters/vol5no4.htm   (3077 words)

  
 Hermitage Wine Cellars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Hermitage Cellars was originally set up due to our restaurant customers asking where they could buy the wines that they had enjoyed with their meal at the Brookfield.
The Hermitage Restaurant's wine list is full of interesting and often rare wines and these are often not easily available elsewhere.
Hermitage Cellars sells wines by the case to both retail as well as wholesale customers and since it was set up has grown from strength to strength.
www.brookfieldhotel.co.uk /hermitage.htm   (119 words)

  
 Appellations - Rhone - Wine Basics - Wine.com
The red wines are easy to remember — they are all made from Syrah.
These wines are made from organically grown grapes from vineyards dedicated to sustainable farming.
These wine ratings are based on a 100 point quality scale, and are selected by each publication's unique criteria.
wine.com /aboutwine/basics/appellations.asp?region=11589&...   (430 words)

  
 Northern Rhone Valley Syrahs - WineSkinny.com Skinny Guide to French Wine
While California wines, for example, generally tell you what's in the bottle (Chardonnay, Cabernet, etc.), French wine labels generally tell you where the wine is from and who made it, not what is in the bottle.
The red Hermitage should have a huge color (deep purple, almost fl when bottled, maturing to a rich mahogany with ruby glints), a pronounced aroma of flcurrants and spices and an assured intensity of red and fl berry flavors.
The Syrah wine from the Saint-Joseph region is pleasant and fruity and ready for relatively early drinking (2-6 years).
www.wineskinny.com /past_issues/french_guide/rhonesyrah.htm   (1841 words)

  
 Hermitage Wine Background and Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Hermitage is the most famous of all Rhone Valley, France appellations.
Later, because of a nearby chapel to the saint, they were called "Saint Christopher's Hillside Wines".
These wines are an inky fl to deep garnet color, and the aroma is very much of fl fruits and spice.
www.lisashea.com /wine/types/bl_hermitage.htm   (135 words)

  
 1998 l Hermitage - Garage Wine of St Emilion - RARE - $47.99
Chateau l'Hermitage is one of the new wave of "Garage" wines from St Emilion.
These wines are made using new techniques, similar to the "New World" wines and are massive and powerful and needless to say, rare and expensive.
Wine Spectator gives this wine 90 points and Parker gives it 89+ points.
www.winecommune.com /lot.cfm?lotID=872480   (362 words)

  
 The Wine News Magazine - Petite Sirah -- Loving the other Rhône
Because Petites are some of the longest-lived of California's red wines, smoothing out their tannins and taking on a mellowness with 10, 15 or 20 years in the cellar, they make a savvy choice as a gift for a child who will turn 21 a generation from now.
The wine's fruit flavors of rich berry and boysenberry jam are enhanced by spicy notes of pepper, nutmeg and clove.
If the wine is young and without sediment, simply extract the cork and glug the wine straight into the decanter, aerating it as much as possible in the process.
www.thewinenews.com /augsep03/cover.asp   (7718 words)

  
 Appellations - Hermitage - Wine Basics - Wine.com
The red wines of Hermitage are powerful, age-worthy wines, often commanding prices similar to those of top Bordeaux.
Like the island of Manhattan, once all the land of Hermitage is gone, the land is gone — hard to create sprawl from an already established hill.
The area produces wines of the same make-up of Hermitage — reds from Syrah, whites from Marsanne and Roussanne, and reds are allowed up to 15% of the white varieties.
www.wine.com /aboutwine/basics/appellations.asp?region=11589&appellation=12120   (542 words)

  
 2001 Chave Hermitage - Wally's Wine & Spirits
The most elegant component emanates from les beaumes and pelia, and the denser, thicker wines from meal, l’ermite, and bessards.
The wine will possess a dense ruby,purple color in addition to plenty of sweet cassis fruit, medium body, noticeably high tannin, and gorgeous purity as well as symmetry.
This family-run estate continues to go from strength to strength, with the father and son (gerard and jean-louis) team pushing all the right buttons to achieve success at all quality levels.
www.wallywine.com /ps-9165-479-2001-chave-hermitage-750ml.aspx   (204 words)

  
 Domaine Combier Crozes Hermitage - French Wine from the Northern Rhône Region: Charles Neal Selections
Made from cement and holding 6 hl of wine (600 liters or about two and a half barrels), eggs provide the benefits of cement tanks (cooler temperatures without the expenditure of electricity) yet for much smaller lots.
The wine goes through its malolactic and is bottled with a light filtration.
The wine passes its malo and is bottled after a light filtration.
www.charlesnealselections.com /wine/northernrhone/combier.html   (1129 words)

  
 red wine, bordeaux, hermitage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The wider selection of red wine is the result of the greater choices winemakers have in adjusting their wine to achieve the desired results.
Red wine is made from fl grapes, which are really red or bluish in color.
Red wines should be served cool, not cold, between 62º–65º F (16º–18º C).
www.best-about-wine-online.com /red-wine.htm   (365 words)

  
 | Food & Wine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The wine was a deep purple-ruby with a nose of violets, ripe fl fruits, smoke and herbs.
I decided that it was a Syrah from the northern Rhône, a wine with breeding, perhaps a Côte Rôtie or an Hermitage.
Moueix's wines are made mostly from Merlot, though some Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon may be included in the blend, giving them a fair amount of tannin and structure.
www.foodandwine.com /preview/invoke.cfm?ObjectId=489D5427-E756-41E6-B254E91C5C4E3756   (1169 words)

  
 The Hermitage - Wine Cellar
Hervé Martin is proud to offer a selection of fabulous wines from the "Chateau de Chamilly" in Burgundy, France.
As such, the Hermitage is afforded a selection of wines on an exclusive basis while some of the vineyards more popular varieties are available at select wine and liquor retailers throughout the province.
The traditions and passion for making Fine Wine have passed from Father to Son over 150 years.
www.thehermitagevancouver.com /wine.asp   (190 words)

  
 Winestuff - Ravenscroft Hermitage, Wine Glasses, Wine Accessories
Ravenscroft Crystal is the future of glassware for the wine enthusiast.
The bowls are formed to amplify the bouquet and to precisely guide your wine to the appropriate zones of the palate.
Each brilliant crystal glass is designed to accentuate the attributes of each type of wine.
www.winestuff.com /acatalog/Ravenscroft_Hermitage.html   (169 words)

  
 Design on Wine
Extract from Wine trade loan exhibition of drinking vessels.
Penfolds Wines Pty Ltd Grange Hermitage : wine label.
Penfolds Grange Hermitage Bin 95 : wine label.
www.winelit.slsa.sa.gov.au /design_list.htm   (231 words)

  
 Crozes Hermitage Wine Information, French Wine Guide in Cotes du Rhone
Crozes Hermitage is the largest of all the northern appellations of Côtes du Rhône.
The vineyards lay around Hermitage, where the soil is richer and easier to work with.
Crozes Hermitage wines are less robust then Hermitage.
www.terroir-france.com /region/rhone_crozes.htm   (210 words)

  
 M. Chapoutier - Vineyard : Hermitage - Wine : L'Ermite
I can't imagine that this wine won't turn out to be outstanding, but today it's frightfully unevolved.
One of the candidates for France's wine of the vintage is unquestionably Chapoutier's 1996 Hermitage l'Ermite.
In October, 1997 I reported that this was a virtually perfect wine made from a small parcel of vines, believed to be over 100 years old, located close to the tiny white chapel owned by the Jaboulets on the highest part of the Hermitage Hill.
www.chapoutier.com /gb/vins/cotations.cfm?id=37   (892 words)

  
 Bodega Pinotage wine from South Africa
Pinotage is a wine grape that is a cross between Pinot Noir and Cinsault (called Hermitage in South Africa and parts of Europe, hence the portmanteau name of this grape variety).
Created in South Africa in 1925 by A I Peroldt, a professor at Stellenbosch University, it is probably best known in that country where it makes popular fruity red wines capable of aging, as well as blush, fortified 'port' style, red sparkling and other styles.
Wines made from this grape can be drunk young, in order to savour its fruity flavor.
african-tradition.com /wine/product_info.php/products_id/195   (447 words)

  
 Wine specials - Wine Library
A deeper look at wine and the people, places, and cultures from which they grow.
Wine Library's commitment to the finest service in practice.
Its flavors are focused on concentrated cherries while touches of cream and vanilla sit to the side.
winelibrary.com /wine.asp   (413 words)

  
 Penfolds Grange Hermitage Vintage Wine
The quality of Grange made each year is determined by the availability of grapes of the required quality and style.
Penfolds multi-region, multi-vineyard blending policy enables winemakers to reduce the impact of vintage variation to the point where experts the world over consider Grange to be among the most consistent of the world's great wines.
Grange receives almost four years of bottle age, moderating the raw power of youth and allowing the wine's components to begin a long process of intergration and development.
www.winevintry.com   (229 words)

  
 M. Chapoutier - Vineyard : Crozes Hermitage - Wine : Les Meysonniers
The more serious 1997 Crozes- Hermitage " Les Meysonniers " (about 30% of this cuvée was aged in barrique and the remainder in tank) exhibits a more mineral-dominated, herb-tinged cassis character, spicy, medium-bodied flavors, and an excellent finish with good ripeness, glycerin, and length.
Having enjoyed 6 weeks of maceration, the wine is dense purple-colored, and fuller-bodied than the Crozes Hermitage "La Petite Ruche", with sweeter, more expansive, spicy, olive-scented and flavoured cassis fruit.
The perfume of the fruit lingers in the finish, but the wine is not yet completely open, and will likely benefit from a year or two in the bottle.
www.chapoutier.com /gb/vins/cotations.cfm?id=11   (1585 words)

  
 Rhone Wine Information
The Rhone Valley is well known for its spicy, fiery red wines, although it does make a very small amount of white and rose wine as well.
Perhaps best known of all Rhone wines is the Hermitage wine, created in the northern section of the Rhone valley.
These wines tend to be mellower and easy to drink.
www.wineintro.com /types/rhone.html   (205 words)

  
 Bannockburn Vineyards
Gary made the wines using his own technique - there was 100% natural yeast ferment and second malolactic ferment - the latter being a softening and enrichening process.
Eventually single wines were blended together prior to bottling.
All three wines are rich and complex and perhaps illustrate that the sum is greater than the component parts.
www.bannockburnvineyards.com /Reviews.htm   (1007 words)

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