2022, Jean-Louis Chave Sélection, CROZES-HERMITAGE, 'Silène'100% Syrah 60% of the fruit is sourced from the granitic soils and steep slopes in the northern sector of the appellation and the other 40% come from the south, where the soils are lighter, based mostly on limestone clay and covered in large alluvial stones and smaller river rocks.

This shows a slight change since the mid-1990s with less Cabernet Sauvignon and more Merlot planted today

electric finish

youthfully structured wine

Fragrant tomato leaf

the En Charlemagne lieu-dit picked a week after Le Charlemagne

generous and wonderfully textured medium-bodied flavours are caressing yet powerful with notably better density on the dusty

slightly Pommard-like style with a bell pepper-tinged finish

tar and sweet liquorice at the back

that attractive mélange of black fruit

Strawberry

strawberry and tangy raspberry the whole way through

5 Jancis Robinson (2022)