Hermitage

Hermitage is the most powerful and ageworthy expression of Syrah on earth: a dense, brooding red from a single steep granite hill above the town of Tain-l'Hermitage in France's northern Rhône. Where Côte-Rôtie is perfumed and elegant, Hermitage is muscular and monumental — blackberry and blackcurrant wrapped in tar, smoked meat, black pepper and formidable, slow-resolving tannin, built to age for decades.