Chapoutier Ermitage L'Ermite Blanc 2010 (750ML)

100 RP / 99 WS

The 2010 Ermitage l'Ermite Blanc, which comes from pure granite soils, is a perfect wine. This awesome white, made from pre-phylloxera vines that are not grafted onto American root stocks, offers notes of acacia flowers, orange and nectarine oils, a liquid rock-like component and a full-bodied, multidimensional and multilayered finish. As the great French wine critic Michel Bettane said about l'Ermite in many different vintages, it is greater than the greatest Montrachet. This is a 50- to 75-year white wine. - Robert Parker

Intense, with terrifically racy lemon oil, blanched almond, green fig, chamomile, white peach, apricot and orange blossom notes driving along. A blaze of minerality shoots through the finish, amplifying the elements dramatically. An absolute stunner. Best from 2015 through 2035. From France - James Molesworth