TNs from tonight: 97 Chave, 00 Cristal, Chartogne-Tallet

[Greg_K]

Sorrel makes some pretty good hermitage too

I think Sorrel makes the second best wines in Hermitage, but they’re quite different from Chave.

[Craig_G]

Greg- guess you’ve never tasted good bottles of 90,78,61,59,45 or 29 La Chapelle.All legendary wines and although I love Chave and JL/Erin , old La Chapelle in good condition are very hard to beat ( IMHO )

I’ve never had a great Jaboulet, no, and I’ve had the 90.

LOL, I’ve had that wine four times and only one bottle was good, but that one was very good. To my taste, not as good as any number of Chaves from the 80’s and 90’s. My favorite La Chapelle has been 82, though it’s also not as good as Chave 82 for me.

[Jayson_Cohen]

Greg- guess you’ve never tasted good bottles of 90,78,61,59,45 or 29 La Chapelle.All legendary wines and although I love Chave and JL/Erin , old La Chapelle in good condition are very hard to beat ( IMHO )

I’ve never had a great Jaboulet, no, and I’ve had the 90. Calling the 61 La Chapelle a great Hermitage is a controversial statement given where JLL claims the grapes actually came from.
If you want to share a 78 sometime, I’m down

I don’t think it was just JLL. I thought M. Clape was quite vocal about it.