2015 E. Guigal Ermitage Ex-Voto Rhone, France Favia Pilen Alto

Pilen Alto

only 20% of which are new

Known historically as both a sake brewery and shochu distillery

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With thoughtful farming and careful treatment in the cellar

2015 E. Guigal Ermitage Ex-Voto Rhone, France Favia Pilen AltoOnly made in top vintages, Ex Voto is Guigals masterwork of Hermitage Syrah. The 2015approaching its 10th birthdayis just entering its long drinking window. Old vine fruit (5090 years) from lieux dits like Bessards and Greffieux is fermented in stainless, then aged 40 months in new oak. Monumental and dense but precisely constructed, this is all black fruit, graphite, smoke, and spiceHermitage at full volume.