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A tasting of the different lieux-dits showed how the different soil types reacted to the drought. Granite-based parcels (Ermite, Les Bessards) suffered blockages in ripening and finished at 13% alcohol; the clay-based terroirs (Le Méal, Les Beaumes) didn't stop ripening and finished at 15%. The overall blend will be powerful but fragrant, complex and stylistically sits within other recent dry and hot vintages, and isn't outside the current norm (it's nothing like the similarly extreme 2003). Picking started at the end of August.

Syrah / Shiraz

Domaine JL Chave, Hermitage, Rhône, France, 2022

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A tasting of the different lieux-dits showed how the different soil types reacted to the drought. Granite-based parcels (Ermite,

Domaine JL Chave, Hermitage, Rhône, France 2022

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