Domaine Jean-Louis Chave Hermitage Blanc 2020

Domaine Jean-Louis Chave Hermitage Blanc 2020

Featuring Hermitage icon Domaine Jean-Louis Chave, a benchmark producer for Rhne wines that wow most critics, and us too! Power, purity, elegance and depth usually come to mind when enjoying these wines… 2020 was a powerful and excellent vintage, making these bottles perfect additions to your cellar, to open in a few years once they hit their stride!

Critical Acclaim

99 Jeb Dunnuck

Another heavenly white from this estate is the 2020 Hermitage Blanc, which is the usual 80% Marsanne and 20% Roussanne from a mix lieux-dits. Incredibly perfumed with notes of acacia flowers, buttered stone fruits, toasted brioche, honeysuckle, and crushed stone, it hits the palate with full-bodied richness, a seamless, layered texture, beautiful mid-palate depth, and a great finish. The purity, balance, and intensity here are just about off the charts, and this beauty deserves a solid decade of bottle age, although you’ll be excused if you drink one in its youth as well.

98 Wine Spectator

Takes your breath away. Showing extraordinary concentration, vivid energy and precision, this is sunny and warm, with a generous core of peach and apple flanked by mineral, smoke, subtle toast and finely crushed salt. Reveals lemon oil and green herbs on the powerful, seemingly endless finish. Incredibly alluring now, this has a long life ahead in the cellar — for those who can resist. Marsanne and Roussanne. Drink now through 2035.

98 Wine Advocate

I tasted five different lots that will be blended into the 2020 Hermitage Blanc, from Plat, l’Ermite and three parts of Les Rocoules. Full-bodied, honeyed and rich, this should be another outstanding vintage for Chave’s white, with the incredible lushness of the bigger wines balanced by the zestiness found at the top of Les Rocoules and the delicacy and freshness of L’Ermite.