2009 Delas Frères "Domaine des Tourettes" Hermitage
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Bid on this 3-bottle lot of 2009 Delas Frères "Domaine des Tourettes" Hermitage (98RP, 96JD, 93WS). Wine Advocate: "A wine that flirts with perfection is the inky and opaque 2009 Hermitage Domaine des Tourettes. Coming from L'Ermite, le Sabot, and Les Bessards, and aged in a combination of new and used French oak barrels, it gives up a heavenly bouquet of crushed rocks, blackberries, leather, wild herbs and earth. Massively concentrated on the palate, with another level of fruit and texture over the 2010, it has brilliant purity, building tannin and a blockbuster finish. (JD)" (09/2015)
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Minimum Bid: $210.00
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End Date: Sunday, Jun 7, 5:20 PM PT
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2009 Delas Frères "Domaine des Tourettes" Hermitage
Quantity: 3
Bottle Size: 750 ml
Provenance: Purchased from a reputable retailer upon release and stored in a professional, temperature-controlled wine storage facility.
Condition: Excellent
John Livingstone-Learmonth for Cradle of the Rhône: " dark robe, off we go, promising start. Black fruit and black olives aroma in waves, the fruit ripe, and it all wrapped up in a circle, a rich ball of bouquet waiting to unleash. Imagine this around 2018 – wow! Rich, inscrutable, locked up palate. The texture is rich to oily, the fruit subdued from its bottling. The nose reflects sun, ripeness, bounty, the palate is also bountiful, rich and continuous. Sunny and juicy, persistent wine – what the Bordelais sought from Hermitage in the nineteenth century is understood. It is not far off 1999 in style and richness." (07/2011)
Professional Reviews
98
Wine Advocate
“A wine that flirts with perfection is the inky and opaque 2009 Hermitage Domaine des Tourettes. Coming from L'Ermite, le Sabot, and Les Bessards, and aged in a combination of new and used French oak barrels, it gives up a heavenly bouquet of crushed rocks, blackberries, leather, wild herbs and earth. Massively concentrated on the palate, with another level of fruit and texture over the 2010, it has brilliant purity, building tannin and a blockbuster finish. (JD)” (09/2015)
96
Jeb Dunnuck
“Much more structure, smoky, and concentrated, with a burly feel, the 2009 Delas Frères Hermitage Domaine des Tourettes delivers a serious array of blackberry, graphite, mineral, cedar, and charcoal that gives way to a full-bodied, dense, almost painfully structured palate. Fleshing out in the glass, this rock star Hermitage has a deep, layered mid-palate, integrated acidity, and masses of tannin on the finish. This needs time. 96+” (03/2012)
93
Wine Spectator
“Ripe and flashy, with lots of roasted fig, plum and blackberry fruit, though it's held in check for now by muscular ganache, maduro tobacco and freshly roasted espresso notes. Very grippy on the finish, but fine acidity is buried deep, boding well for the cellar. (JM)” (06/2012)
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Jancis Robinson
“Dark black cherry colour. Intense but lively, peppery red and black fruit on the nose. Just a hint of violets and oak spice. Lovely pure, youthful fruit within very firm and tight but fully ripe tannins. A good chewy grip but in this vintage matched by fruit flesh in the middle. (JH)” (10/2010)
Product Details
Quantity: 3
Bottle Size: 750 ml
Provenance: Purchased from a reputable retailer upon release and stored in a professional, temperature-controlled wine storage facility.
Condition: Excellent
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