Ermitage Les Greffieux Chapoutier 2008 (1.5L)

"""Much more peppery, spicy, perfumed and open, the 2008 Ermitage Les Greffieux is Côte Rôtie like with its olive tapenade, game, white pepper and cured-meat aromas and flavors. Elegant, seamless and silky, it doesn't have the back-end concentration of a top vintage, yet it still has plenty of sweet tannin and will dish out loads of pleasure over the coming 7-10 years...91"" WA 9/14"

Ruby-red. Fresh raspberry and cherry aromas are complicated by notes of rose, violet, cinnamon and mace. Mineral-driven red fruit flavors are refreshingly tangy and pure, with a sweeter dark berry note gaining strength with air. The finish is precise, sweet and stony, with a sexy note of candied flowers hanging on tenaciously. There's an elegant Burgundian quality to this wine that I find very attractive...90-92 IWC 01/10