Hermitage, La Chapelle Rouge

Specification

Producer

Paul Jaboulet Aine

Region

Rest of world

Where

Tain-l'Hermitage, Rhône

Classification

Hermitage AOC

Grapes

Syrah

Vintage

1996

Case

75cl

Held at

Wine Tunnels, London City Bond (in bond)

Code

PAUJAB961X75

About this wine

Hermitage La Chapelle is Jaboulet's flagship red, made from Syrah grown on several of the best sites on the granite hill of Hermitage. It is deep, powerful and structured, with dark fruit, pepper, smoke and savoury notes that develop with time. It needs at least ten years in bottle and the great vintages are very long-lived.

About Paul Jaboulet Aine

Paul Jaboulet Aîné is one of the historic houses of the northern Rhône, based at Tain-l'Hermitage and founded in the first half of the nineteenth century. It was run by the Jaboulet family for generations until 2006, when it was acquired by the Frey family.

The house owns vineyards on the hill of Hermitage and elsewhere in the northern Rhône. Its most famous wine, Hermitage La Chapelle, is named after the small chapel at the top of the hill and was, through much of the twentieth century, one of the most celebrated wines of France.