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Bernard Faurie Hermitage Bessards Méal 2020

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Bernard Faurie Hermitage Bessards Méal 2020
Producer Bernard Faurie
Region, Country Hermitage, France
Bottle Size 750ml
Case Size 12
Product Code 23347-750

Gold capsule. Faurie farms just 0.2 hectares of Le Méal, planted in the 1940s. In 2020, this was blended with selected parcels from his near-100-year-old vineyard at Les Bessards. With its direct-south exposure, Le Méal is perhaps the hill’s warmest site and produces the area’s most layered and hedonistic wine. Faurie calls the wines from here “vin noblesse”, in this blend providing opulence and texture. The Bessards component gives “the skeleton”—the wine’s structure and mineral drive—as well as lifted perfume. This blend is roughly 60% Les Bessards and 40% Le Méal, assembled at harvest time. As for all of Faurie’s reds, this uses 100% bunches, and the winemaking was the same as for the wine above. It was bottled unfiltered, by hand, from two used demi-muids. Faurie describes this wine as “une force”, and he’s right. Decades will not weary it!

Bernard Faurie Hermitage Bessards Méal 2020

Reviews

“The bouquet carries inner sweetness, is reduced, has an appealing depth of black fruits, coulis-like in style, cassis de Dijon liqueur, will be a prominent feature. This is an artful blend, with a very even contribution between richness, depth and red fruit of Méal with mineral-iron of Les Bessards. There’s very pleasing coolness in the red, raspberry fruit – Méal with restraint this year. It lengthens well, has good shape, style, poise, some flair. The tannins are tasty, well inside it, and the balance is good. From 2026-27. 2049-51”
John Livingstone-Learmonth, Drink Rhône

Reviews

“The bouquet carries inner sweetness, is reduced, has an appealing depth of black fruits, coulis-like in style, cassis de Dijon liqueur, will be a prominent feature. This is an artful blend, with a very even contribution between richness, depth and red fruit of Méal with mineral-iron of Les Bessards. There’s very pleasing coolness in the red, raspberry fruit – Méal with restraint this year. It lengthens well, has good shape, style, poise, some flair. The tannins are tasty, well inside it, and the balance is good. From 2026-27. 2049-51”
John Livingstone-Learmonth, Drink Rhône

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