2012 Marc Sorrel Crozes Hermitage Rouge

has a bit more colour, fuller red, than usual – a healthy, bright red robe. Peppery, attractively free red fruits air, redcurrant jelly, black pepper present in the nose. The palate fruit is racy, upfront, with dash, drinks solo, is more collected and clear than many of his red Crozes’ wines in the past. Drink in wine bars. There is good essence of young Syrah here. Clean lines, no excess flesh, nice and naked, w.o.w. wine. Its cherry fruit lingers with small droplets as it ends. “This year I did two harvestings, 2 weeks apart, the last on 15 October – it was a question of exposure of the vineyards,” Marc Sorrel. 3*