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93 Wine Spectator -
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A dense, dark style, with notes of licorice root, fig paste and blackberry pate de fruit forming the core, all coated in loamy tannins and rumbling through the tarry-edged finish. Still has some unwinding to do. Best from 2016 through 2026. 500 cases made.
Technical Details
- BlendSyrah
- CountryFrance
- RegionRhone
- AppellationHermitage
Jean-Louis Chave Selection Hermitage Farconnet 2010
Syrah Blends | France
WS93
Too late, we are SOLD OUT!
About the Producer
Wine growers in the northern Rhone since 1481, the Chave family (currently helmed by Jean-Louis) represents 16 generations of unbroken lineage. Jean Louis joined his father in 1992 after completing undergraduate studies at University of Connecticut and a degree in oenology at Davis. It was at that time that he completely replanted vineyards on the family's original estate in Saint-Joseph, which had been abandoned in the early 1900s when phylloxera hit the region.