2015 Crozes Hermitage Vieilles Vignes
Market price
Buying options
Tasting notes
Brilliant ruby. High-pitched, mineral-accented blackberry and cherry pit aromas are complicated by notes of olive, spicecake and licorice, and a suave floral quality builds as the wine opens up. Sappy and expansive on the palate, offering sweet dark berry liqueur and violet pastille flavors lifted and sharpened by a smoky mineral component. Shows impressive vivacity for a warm vintage and finishes spicy, focused and long, with fine-grained tannins adding shape.
Critic scores
Average Score
Jancis Robinson MW
Josh Raynolds
More reviews and scores
The 2015 Crozes Hermitage Vieilles Vignes is another inky-colored red that gives up plump, forward notes of black cherries, black raspberries, graphite, scorched earth and licorice aromas and flavors. It’s a big, fruit-forward, sexy Crozes Hermitage that should drink reasonably well in its youth, yet evolve gracefully through 2025.
100% Syrah (60 years old), Larnage, Battis, Gervans, Les Chassis. Slopes in Mercurol. One-third whole bunch, aged in new and one-year-old barrels. Very dark purple – particularly youthful-looking. Really focused, direct, piercing aroma of fully ripe Syrah – noticeably riper than usual. This makes you sit up and take notice! Firm and fresh on the palate. Sleek, polished tannins and bone dry on the finish. Still a bit embryonic. Nothing remotely second best about this. Bravo! (JR)