Delas Freres Hermitage Les Bessards 2017 Xinomavro Palate: caramel

Palate: caramel

The port adds dark fruit depth and weight without tipping sweet

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with each flower petal individually steeped

harvested young and bottled early to preserve the variety's sea-spray freshness

Delas Freres Hermitage Les Bessards 2017 Xinomavro Palate: caramelFRANCE : RHONE VALLEY : HERMITAGE Syrah FULL BODIED, CASSIS, CRUSHED STONE, GRAPHITE, CURED MEAT, NEW OAK Les Bessards is the most granite intensive section of Hermitage Hill the western flank where thin soils over solid bedrock force concentration and yield a mineral signature found nowhere else in the Northern Rhne. Delas Frres selects only their oldest parcels here, producing roughly 6,000 bottles per year, and only in the best vintages. 2017 was a