Made even less regularly than the L’Ermitage Brut (the last vintage was 2015), the outstanding 2019 Brut Rose L'Ermitage spent five years on the yeast. It exudes fresh-picked strawberries and summer peach along a...

The first vintage of L’Ermitage was 1989, and the wine is produced only in exceptional years. The 2019 vintage marks the first vintage of L’Ermitage to undergo full malolactic fermentation. A small portion of the wine...

The lemon-drop and marmalade aromas are ripe and effusive, with a bass note of brioche pulling it along. Four years on the lees provide a creamy counterpoint to the 10 to 12 grams per liter of dosage, as does...

I tasted again the 2019 Terrers, a blend of 57% Xarel·lo, 25% Macabeu, 17% Parellada and 1% Monastrell from close to 60 different vineyards, all organic and biodynamic. It was cropped from a very good vintage, with...