M. Chapoutier Hermitage Mure de Larnage

Ermitage wines possess a rich historical past. They were appreciated as early on as Roman times when they were enjoyed (as well as Côte Rotie wines) under the name of Vienne wines and were later to be called Saint Christopher's hillside wines because of a chapel there bearing the saint's name. They were also to be known of as Tournon wines . The name of Ermitage probably first appeared in the XVIIth Century in memory of Henry Gaspard, a knight from Stérimberg : who having come back from the Crusades (in the XIIIth Century) and tired of waging war, lived as a hermite on a hillside which had been given to him by Anne of Castille, Queen of Spain. There he planted a vineyard. Alexander Dumas as well as the Tsar Nicholas II are among the many connoisseurs of this particularly highly estimated wine. (Maison M. Chapoutier)
30% in neuen 600l-Fässern und 50% in gebrauchtem Holz für 16-18 Monate
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