M. Chapoutier, Hermitage, Le Meal Blanc
M. Chapoutier · Rhone › Hermitage › France
Critics Average score from professional wine critics and publications.
95
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19
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Taster #6047
· Jan 2, 2025
Oxidized!
2004 vintage
Taster #1187
· Mar 8, 2024
93/100
Deep Golden color. Scents of almond, acacia flower, daffodil, celery, spices, and bee's wax. Fruit of quince, tangerine, asian pear, and peach. A little of orange liqueur-like intensity in midpalate. Slight hotness. Saline minerality. Velvety creamy textures. Pithy bitterness pleasantly lingers. Medium body. Medium acidity. Exquisitely rich texture. The fruit is slightly on the ripe side, but it had that ethereal quality.
2004 vintage
Taster #6590
· Nov 19, 2023
92/100
Ripe, orange-ey color and honeyed to start, tho decent acid and well balanced. Started out a bit overripe and thin, then firmed up. Really interesting and enjoyable.
2004 vintage
Taster #9986
· Feb 18, 2023
sherry
2004 vintage
Taster #5642
· Mar 31, 2022
85/100
Deep golden color. I love Chapoutier’s Le Meal but I feel that this is aging quite rapidly and needs to be consumed as soon as possible. Tasted twice recently and it has lost most of its acidity.
2004 vintage
Taster #5325
· Feb 1, 2021
Just looking at the reviews this wine has gotten shows how high quality it is. Without a doubt, it is monumental. Deep gold in color and visibly viscous upon swirling the glass. The nose is waxy, chalky, earthy, and honeyed. The wine fills the mouth with a rich, creamy, almost chewy texture with a finish that lasts and lasts. The flavors are so complex, they actually remind me a bit of a Gravner amphora-aged orange wine; the flavors are different …
2004 vintage
Taster #5517
· Jan 30, 2021
93/100
92-93pts. Let me start stating that this is a polarizing wine - either you like it, or you hate it. I fell in the first category, but my wife (and it was her birthday) was having none of it. It is a whale of a wine - big-bodied for a white, with almost liquor-like in its aromas. Complete notes on IG at brl_winelover.
2004 vintage
Taster #7469
· Jun 20, 2020
97/100
Gorgeous luscious unctuous waxy golden joy.
2004 vintage
Taster #8663
· Aug 24, 2019
Suspect storage issues.
2004 vintage
Taster #1913
· Jun 24, 2018
100/100
BUD IS 75! (Abbot Street, Ngaio, Wellington, New Zealand) : Without question, an extraordinary wine. Very modern in style, with plenty of (stunning) new oak that frames the gorgeous fruit. White floral notes add a sense of beauty to the honied, stone fruit and mineral nature of the fruit. The balance is perfect, the finish is perfect, the mid palate intensity is all about nuance, balance, and is (not surprisingly) perfect. This wine as the proportions (and mouth feel) of …
2004 vintage
Taster #0873
· Nov 23, 2017
97/100
Color is beautiful. Light brandy or Tokaji. Definite apricot, dried yellow, tropical, and stone fruit flavors. Minerality. Incredible length. Some tartness. Full bodied with an unbelievable viscosity. Peach. with a hint of almonds. Subtle honeysuckle. Do not serve too cold. Really opens up. Getting a bit of honey now. Just wow. Good by itself and great with food. Good acidity.
2004 vintage
Taster #1329
· Sep 18, 2017
94/100
The charismatic dowager gets sharper, more deep and precise with age. She is ascerbic and dismissive of disagreement. She dominates the conversation, even when it features deeply flavored Mediterranean stew... but her edges, ever bold, have soured and dried a bit. Still tropical; more dried and angular are her fruit flavors. She does not want to be too cold or imbibed too fast, and her flavors are darker and a bit more insidious. We still love her intensity, but are …
2004 vintage
Taster #8449
· Mar 5, 2016
Dark pineapple, dried jackfruit. Overall an impression of dried yellow tropical fruits. Quite viscous. Acid can't quite stand up to the fruit notes. A tad hot for my palate, not harsh, but too hot. The finish is marred by the alcohol
2004 vintage
Taster #9573
· Dec 12, 2015
96/100
Exclusive dinner with eight friends and 22 special wines. : In the bouquet beautifully ripe and soft yellow and white tropical fruits as well as minerals. On the palate lush and soft yellow fruits as well. Beautiful and fresh acidity. Full bodied and luxurious wine with an enormous length.
2004 vintage
Taster #6741
· Feb 8, 2014
95/100
It is all about the finish this time- intense stone notes that confuse and tease the mind-taste bud connection.. Mind-blowing depth and length (probably a minute) for a white wine. Needs major decant, I should have waited another 5 years to drink but was craving a white hermitage. Subdued nose of white flowers, melon and citrus. Palate has tart fruit, stone, a touch of honey and some heat. So unique, cerebral and very special.
2004 vintage
Taster #4899
· Jan 16, 2014
94/100
Intense gold. Ripe yellow fruits, half dry yellow fruits, almond paste, a hint of burnt sugar, flowers and mineral. A big scale wine, intense ripe yellow fruit driven palate impression, good acidity and nice length. A hint of alcohol both in the nose and the palate which is not bothersome. It evolved nicely with air. A very good but I don’t see myself rating this 100.
2004 vintage
Taster #8492
· Jul 6, 2013
94/100
A private tasting and dinner (Restaurant Bolenius, Amsterdam, NL) : Rich but fresh, much better balance and energy than the big 2000, honeysuckle, salted butter and minerals, a very concentrated wine with the elegance of a cooler vintage; excellent length and depth. Continues to improve throughout the evening. Great potential.
2004 vintage
Taster #9986
· Feb 28, 2013
93/100
Flavors of honey, flower, and a touch of almond...very rich and thick...probably served a little colder than would have been ideal.
2004 vintage
Taster #5646
· Jul 15, 2012
My third bottle of this incredible wine over the past 3 years. Concentrated and intense, while lush on the palate and sublime on the finish.
2004 vintage
Taster #2546
· Jun 2, 2012
93/100
Hermitage Blancs: Chave vs. Chapoutier (The Redd Collection, Culver City, California) : Light golden yellow color with 1 millimeter clear meniscus; intense, bee pollen, light coriander, baked lemon nose; tasty, mature, rich, bee pollen, safflower oil palate; long finish
2004 vintage
Taster #7740
· Jun 12, 2011
95/100
KYD #1.2 : Dense nose filled with overripe exotic fruits like honey dew melon, papaya and peach. Highly intense and has a heavy feel to it and also shows some concentrated honey. Improves a lot with air and shows an improved minerality and gets more perfumed. A lot of honey sweetness dominates the powerful palate but very little acidity which unfortunately makes the wine seem a bit "flat" in its overall mouth-feel. There is also a lot of exotic fruit …
2004 vintage
Taster #7175
· Jun 2, 2011
100/100
Enjoyed over three hours during dinner at Joel Robuchon in Las Vegas. Served chilled slightly below cellar temperature. Popped and poured into large wine glass provided by the restaurant. Color was between bright gold straw and light honey color. Expressive nose of honeycomb, almond paste, and acacia flowers. Palate was concentrated and intense showing layers of honey, Marcona almonds, tropical fruits, and mineral notes. Full bodied with an unbelievable viscosity. Coated the palate and kept changing flavor layers in the …
2004 vintage
Taster #4350
· Apr 18, 2011
98/100
The last sip was the best....
2004 vintage
Taster #5533
· Mar 24, 2011
97/100
HONEYSUCKLE, APRICOTS, AND CITRUS IN THE NOSE AND FLAVOR. NICE COMPLEXITY AND A LONG FINISH. GREAT FOOD COMPLEMENT
2004 vintage
Taster #5829
· Jan 11, 2010
99/100
Wow this was a beautiful wine. Having drank the '03 L'Ermite Blanc a year earlier and being blown away, I was curious as to how the '04 Le Meal would stand up to that wine. I'd say the '04 Le Meal held its own, but didn't quite have the concentration/layering of the '03 L'Ermite. The Le Meal had wonderful concentration with a deep yellow color. It had amazing flavors of crushed stones, lemons, pineapples, honey, citrus and beeswax. This wine …
2004 vintage