1998 Ermitage Cuvee Cathelin
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Tasting Notes
Tasting notes
Score 98/100 · Robert Parker
The opaque black/purple-colored 1998 Ermitage Cuvee Cathelin (200 cases) offers a huge nose of smoked licorice, blackberry, cassis, new saddle leather, and vanillin. Tasting like liqueur of Syrah, it is extremely full-bodied and awesomely concentrated, with formidable tannin as well as mind-blowing levels of extract and density. The tannin is sweet, and the wine seamless for a young Chave Hermitage. Robert Parker, Wine Advocate February 2001
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98
98/100
Robert Parker
About the producer
Domaine Jean-Louis Chave
The Chaves have been growing grapes in the Northern Rhône since 1481. Jean-Louis Chave is the 16th generation to head up the family domaine, having taken over from his father in 1992.