(94-96 points) Belle's inky colored 2015 Hermitage looks to be a stunner. This cuvée comes all from the more sandy, limestone soils of the Les Murets lieu-dit and will see 26 months in barrel. It has a gorgeous bouquet of cassis, Asian spices, vanilla bean and liquid rock. This gives way to a full-bodied, ripe, powerful Hermitage that has terrific purity, an elegant, balanced personality and building, ripe tannin. It needs 3-4 years of cellaring and will drink beautifully for two decades.

Plush, big and cuddly, the full-bodied 2015 Hermitage offers mouth-filling flavors of mocha cream and ripe cherries. It's concentrated and rich but maybe doesn't have quite the detail and precision of the estate's top wines from the granites of Saint Joseph or Crozes Hermitage. It's a bit drying on the finish at the moment, so give it a couple of years and then drink it over the following decade and a half. - JC

Perfumed notes of sandalwood, smoke and tobacco envelop fig and boysenberry flavors in this wine. It's voluptuous and hedonistic, full of warming spice and smoke tones, but balanced freshly and lingering on soft, chalky tannins. Irresistible already it should improve through 2030 and hold further.