Guigal, Ermitage Ex Voto other_regions The 2016 Syrah Cailloux Vineyard

The 2016 Syrah Cailloux Vineyard is co-fermented with 4% Viognier in a Côte-Rôtie style that delivers a red and black-fruited nose with a floral grip and rustic rockiness

It was bottled in September 2019

but it's not necessarily better

the wine is perhaps more interesting on the nose with its blast of garrigue

Guigal, Ermitage Ex Voto other_regions The 2016 Syrah Cailloux VineyardThe 2010 Hermitage Ex Voto continues to top out on my scale. This extraordinary Hermitage has more minerality and delineation than the 2009, as well as overflowing aromas and flavors of creme de cassis, jammy blackberries, violets, graphite and wood smoke. Massively concentrated, full bodied, decadent, layered and sexy, it needs short term cellaring but should be just about immortal in the cellar.