M. Chapoutier Ermitage L'Ermite Blanc 2024 en Primeur

Immediately very savoury in aroma, showing notes of bay leaf, thyme, fleur de sel and petrichor. A touch tighter and more reductive than the other white Hermitage wines this year. It has plenty of body for L'Ermite, and is very complete and well balanced. This is just the essence of granite, so upright, so salty, so tense. There’s freshness too, no heaviness. A very good vintage which has produced a classic Ermite. Grapes were harvested in three passes at the beginning, middle and end of September, as the vineyard is spread across different altitudes.