Delas Freres - St.-Joseph Ste.-Epine 2019 (Pre-arrival) (750ml) available at Empire State Of Wine in New York, NY

2016 was a brilliant vintage. The winter was mild but morphed into an unusually cool spring, which made for a delayed budburst and flowering. Hail in April damaged some of the crop in Hermitage,…

"A blend of Syrah grapes from several lieux-dits, including Les Bessards, the 2015 Hermitage Domaine des Tourettes is aged in new and second use barrels. It's a dark, concentrated wine, meaty, rich…

17.5+/20 points | JancisRobinson.com Tasted blind. Ripe nose, dark fruits and savoury notes. A note of bacon fat, spice and vanilla with firm rounded tannins.

(95 Points) "The 2020 Saint Joseph Sainte-Epine is another Hermitage look-alike, with a slightly Bessards-like character in its ripe blue fruits, liquid violets, burning embers, and leather-slanted…

2006 Delas Freres Saint-Joseph Sainte-Epine.

(96 Points) "Moving to the three Hermitage releases, the 2020 Hermitage Domaine Des Tourettes offers a deep, saturated purple hue as well as a powerful bouquet of scorched earth, creosote, peppered…

2020 Delas Freres - Hermitage Domaine des Tourettes (750ml) available at Burlington Wine & Spirits in Burlington, MA

1998 Delas Freres Hermitage Les Bessards, Rhone.

"a wine that needs to be left alone for another 4-5 years is the 2005 Hermitage Les Bessards. As with the Cote Rotie La Landonne, I tasted this earlier in the year and it showed similar this go…