M. Chapoutier, Crozes-Hermitage, Petite Ruche Blanc

M. Chapoutier · Rhone › Crozes-Hermitage › France

White · Marsanne
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LWIN 1109632
Critics Average score from professional wine critics and publications.
88 /100
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5
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88.4
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91
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Taster #9454 · Nov 5, 2012
88/100
Pale brass. Subtle flowers on the nose. Predominately stoney with a strong minerality, some lemon lime and a bit of sherry. No sweetness at all. Another very interesting Rhone white. I love this stuff! Good finish and decent mid palate. Buy again!
2008 vintage
Taster #5608 · Nov 24, 2011
91/100
Very nice Crozes Hermitage. Plenty of minerals and soft fruit. Great with smoked Turkey.
2008 vintage
Taster #0923 · May 18, 2011
88/100
This is a lighter Crozes and I was surprised to find that it is 100% Marsanne. Green straw color, with melon and pear on the nose, and something floral. Pretty bold, firm structure through the mid palate of peach and melon (or is that still the nose?), orange peel transitions toward the finish of light minerality. Ends with jasmine and honeysuckle. I really like this wine, though perhaps a bit less at $25.
2008 vintage
Taster #6909 · Dec 15, 2010
85/100
Clearly what I was drinking was something very different to the juice the other people who've posted notes here were drinking. Where was the Marsanne in this? Medium acid, some decent weight, mostly fresh apple flavours, tasty and well-made but overpriced and could be a Chardonnay as easily as a white Rhone.
2008 vintage
Taster #8068 · Jun 22, 2010
Lemon oil, lemon verbena, field flowers, mineral and stone fruit on the palate. Very fresh and alive. On the palate the wine shows more crunchy apple-y tree fruit, raw quince, melon rind. Salty, calcareous minerality. Fresher style of Crozes-Hermitage Blanc, very straight.
2008 vintage
Taster #5445 · Apr 22, 2010
90/100
Golden yellow color. Sweet honeydew melon aromatics. Tastes of melon, apple and lemon fruit. Interesting minerality with a rich mouthfeel. Very well balanced. Medium bodied. Long finish with some depth and complexity.
2008 vintage