1989 M. Chapoutier Ermitage Le Pavillon (1.5L, Slightly Stained Label) Wine exotic white flowers and orchard

exotic white flowers and orchard fruit are some of the notes that build in this super-expressive

The stony and silty-claey soil consists of colluviums limestones of average depth and rests on a marly base

cola and mesquite

this is still youthful and should age for decades to come

the Oak Knoll bench

1989 M. Chapoutier Ermitage Le Pavillon (1.5L, Slightly Stained Label) Wine exotic white flowers and orchard"The 1989 Le Pavilion is a prodigious wine. Made from yields of 14 hectoliters per hectare, this parcel of old vines (averaging 70 80 years of age) has produced an opaque black purple colored wine, with a hauntingly stunning bouquet of violets, cassis, minerals, and new oak. In the mouth, the similarity in texture, richness, and perfect balance to the compelling 1986 Mouton Rothschild is striking, only this wine is richer and longer. It is an enormous