with concentration and freshnesswhat you're aiming for in a wine like this where pure power might be too much

with cedar

vibrant palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin

Chardonnay seems to play the leading role in 2004

broad wine comes across as less wild than the Le Désir and La Joie bottlings

Guigal, Ermitage Ex Voto Size:3x750ml with concentration and freshnesswhat you'reThe 2010 Hermitage Ex Voto continues to top out on my scale. This extraordinary Hermitage has more minerality and delineation than the 2009, as well as overflowing aromas and flavors of creme de cassis, jammy blackberries, violets, graphite and wood smoke. Massively concentrated, full bodied, decadent, layered and sexy, it needs short term cellaring but should be just about immortal in the cellar.