Hermitage Blanc Nobles Rives 2000

Cave de Tain l'Hermitage (France)

Marsanne
White Wine	Score: ✧✧✧✧

The wine shows a pale golden yellow color and nuances of straw yellow, very transparent. The nose reveals good personality with intense, clean, pleasing and refined aromas which start with good hints of apple, pear and broom followed by aromas of walnut-husk, hawthorn, hazelnut, plum, toasted wood and pleasing mineral hints. In the mouth has good correspondence to the nose, a crisp attack and however well balanced by alcohol, good body, intense flavors, pleasing roundness. The finish is persistent with good flavors of pear and apple. Part of this wine is fermented in barrique.
Alcohol: 13.5%
Crustaceans, Roasted fish, Sauteed meat with mushrooms, Roasted white meat
Suggested glass	11 °C (51 °F)
(Bodied and Mature White Wines)
Issue 17, March 2004