Delas Hermitage Domaine des Tourettes 2015

Professional Ratings

• 97 Decanter

  Dark and brooding with a black fruit core and intense coffee bean notes; abundant toasty oak, spice and lovely black olives; very concentrated, powerful and generous with big, grainy tannins and a long spicy finish.

• 95 Wine Spectator
  Juicy, with a fun mix of green almond, creamed pear, lemon gelée, white peach and salted butter flavors that glide through. Light verbena and honeysuckle notes add lift on the finish, though this stays rich and broad overall. Drink now through 2035.
• 94 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
  A blend of Syrah grapes from several lieux-dits, including Les Bessards, the 2015 Hermitage Domaine des Tourettes is aged in new and second use barrels. It's a dark, concentrated wine, meaty, rich and tannic but with a bright beam of cassis fruit that lifts it and gives it great definition and shape on the palate.
• 94 Jeb Dunnuck
  While the Les Bessards gets all the attention, the 2015 Hermitage Domaine Des Tourettes isn't far behind and is unquestionably the value play. Beef blood, cassis, blackberry liqueur and loads of crushed rock nuances all emerge from this ripe, concentrated, full-bodied Hermitage that has a classic, structured profile. It's well worth a case purchase and will keep for two to three decades. As always, this cuvée comes from two parcels, the lower part of the Bessards lieu-dit and the Les Grandes Vignes located at the highest point on Hermitage Hill. It’s completely destemmed and sees 16 months in 30% new French oak.
• 93 Wine & Spirits
  Delas Frères has some of the largest holdings on the Hermitage hill, with almost 25 acres of vines. This is blended from the lieux-dits L’Ermite and Le Sabot, as well as a portion from the granite-heavy soils of Les Bessards. Fermented in open-topped cement tanks, then aged in a mix of new and used barrels, it’s a showy wine, packed with purple fruit and lavished with the sweet spice of oak. Behind that generous façade, however, granite-firm tannins power the wine, building in structure and density, and the sense that this will be even better with a decade of age.
• 92 James Suckling
  An extremely rich brambly blackberry, orange zest and chocolate nose with sweet earthiness and dark slate-like stones. The palate unfurls sweet and ripe red berry fruits. The oak is a little caramelized. Appealing fruit. Best from 2020.