1978 Domaine De LHermite Hermitage

1978 Domaine De LHermite Hermitage

CONVERGENCE
I had two bottles of this wine over a period of approximately 1 month, quite a different experience. Both bottles possessed one similar character they both tasted like burgundy!
For some reasons, even Syrah based grapes also morphed itself into burgundy style. The pleasantness, mellow character, along with 1978 burgundy like smoothness and good depth showed up even in this Hermitage wine. If you blind me this bottle, I'll swear by it that it's a burgundy, perhaps a Chambolle Musigny!

18 May 2016
ALL ROADS LEAD TO BURGUNDY
After being totally impressed with JL Chave's Hermitage 78, I made an effort to seek out any Hermitage 78, in hope to replicate the Chave's miracle.
The first bottle of the case, I got a lot of wet tobacco on the nose, along with cooked cherry or strawberry, and dried flowers and potpourri.
Palate was really burgundy like; cool, sour cherries, high acidity, extremely burgundy like, very Pinot noir, really difficult to differentiate if I tasted it blind!