Mure de Larnage

Description

The wine has a raspberry-red color. The aroma is red fruit (mainly smorrello cherries) and spices (licorice, gray pepper). The tannins are firm and silky. Hermitage is a small appellation with 140 hectares (345 acres) of vineyards, responsible for France’s most enduringly prestigious wines. These are on a par with those from the Côte Rôtie to the north and Châteauneuf-du-Pape to the south. The prestige of Hermitage wine can be clearly traced back to the 17th Century, when it was an official wine in the French courts of King Louis XIII and his successor Louis XIV, the “Sun King”. Not just the monarchs’ preferred wine, it was also used as a gift for visiting dignitaries and foreign royalty.