M. Chapoutier, Hermitage Blanc De L’Oree, 2012 so012425 tondonia 2012 offer oxygen-rich approach

oxygen-rich approach

from a warm vintage

The 2023 vintage shows off the full potential of Riesling from this stunning terroir

Compared to Gahier’s “La Vigne de Louis

this wine comes from vines grafted onto Vitis Rupestris rootstock—planted in the 1940s in Cappellano's Serralunga vineyard

M. Chapoutier, Hermitage Blanc De L’Oree, 2012 so012425 tondonia 2012 offer oxygen-rich approachOne of Hermitage's reference whites, made entirely from Marsanne vines that are now well over 60 years old. Chapoutier draws De l'Oree from the Les Murets lieu dit, where ancient fluvioglacial alluvium and biodynamic farming yield tiny crops of intensely concentrated fruit. Roughly half the wine ferments and ages in large 600 liter wooden barrels with regular lees stirring, the rest in tank, building texture without overt oak. The result is famously