Marc Sorrel, Hermitage Blanc Rocoules Vintage:2021

Marc Sorrel, Hermitage Blanc Rocoules Vintage:2021Bright yellow. Perfumed aromas of poached pear, orange, toasted grains and honey develop hints of smoky minerals and pungent flowers. Smooth and expansive on the palate, offering pliant, concentrated orchard and pit fruit flavors and a touch of fennel that builds in the glass. Finishes long, weighty and smooth, offering very good clarity and emerging honey and floral notes. Josh Raynolds

There is excellent punch and detail to the middle weight flavors that are less muscular but even more harmonious with the same fine depth and length

An expressive nose of relatively high-toned red currant

Wonderful aromas of citrus peel

It has character

(88-90)/2022+

60 ha holding)

licorice and spices meld into a core of supple

corpulent textures

This mind boggling wine was an epiphany

This doesn’t have quite the same grace as the Combottes but it’s definitely a quality effort as it’s built-to-age and a wine that’s going to need at least half a dozen years of patience first while rewarding 15+

baked apple and acacia blossom aromas

which measure