Awards, Ratings & Reviews
Wine Spectator
94/100
2022 Vintage · Tasted: Dec 2024
Decanter World Wine Awards
93/100
2022 Vintage · Tasted: Jan 2025
Andreas Larsson
93/100
2022 Vintage · Tasted: Jul 2024
“Medium to deep colour with a purple core and hue. The nose combines mild oak and toast with some flinty hints, raspberry, plum, cassis, pepper, cardamom and some meaty notes. The palate is dense and meaty with a modest extraction, rounded tannin, flavour intense with pure fruit and a long generous finish.”
James Suckling
2022 Vintage · Tasted: Apr 2024
“Complex roasted nose with deep red fruit aromas. A polished Hermitage that is quite accessible for an appellation with the reputation for needing long aging. Fleshy and elegant, with restrained tannins on the medium-bodied palate. Then, just when you think it is a bit easy-going, the structured stony finish comes through to remind you who’s boss. Mostly from the bottom of the Les Bessards section of the hill. Matured 100% in Burgundian oak barrels, of which a quarter were new, for 15 months. Drinkable now, but best from 2025.”
Jancis Robinson
17/20
2022 Vintage · Tasted: Sep 2023
When to drink: 2027–2037
About This Wine
This cuvée is a blend of grapes from three terroirs: L’Ermite, Le Sabot and the prestigious Bessards terroir. Average production is approximately 30,000 bottles (75 cl) per year. Grape variety: 100% Syrah.
The grapes for the “Domaine des Tourettes” cuvée are harvested by hand, plot by plot, at optimal ripeness. Vinification is carried out traditionally in open concrete vats after two days of cold pre-fermentation maceration. Fermentation continues at a controlled temperature of 28°C to 30°C, with daily punching down and pumping over for about ten days. Total maceration time can reach 20 days. After racking and pressing, malolactic fermentation takes place in oak barrels.
The wines are aged in oak barrels. The oak character results from a precise and variable proportion between new barrels and barrels that have previously held wine, adapted to each vintage’s tannic and gustatory profile.
Tasting Notes
Visually, the wine is a deep, brilliant, dark red. On the nose, the Hermitage “Domaine des Tourettes” expresses power and complexity, offering aromas of black fruit, spice and leather. The palate, firm yet silky, possesses a tight tannic structure, the hallmark of the finest wines for aging.
About the Winery
Delas Frères is an estate based in the northern Rhône Valley, particularly known for its Syrah-based wines from the Hermitage, Côte-Rôtie and Crozes-Hermitage appellations.
The Delas family have been involved in wine production in the Rhône Valley since 1835. In 1977, the company joined forces with Champagne Deutz, and in 1993 both were acquired by the Rouzaud family, owners of Louis Roederer.
Specifications
- Vintage: 2022
- Grape Variety: 100% Syrah
- Region: Hermitage / Rhône / France
- Fermentation: Open concrete vats after cold pre-fermentation maceration
- Maturation: Oak barrels with variable proportion of new and previously used barrels
- Production Attributes: Hand harvested; plot-by-plot vinification
- Vineyard / Geo info: L’Ermite, Le Sabot and Les Bessards; granitic arenas with mica schists, gneiss and alluvial deposits across Tain-l’Hermitage, Crozes-Hermitage and Larnage
- Alcohol: 13.5%
- Sweetness: Dry
- Winemaker / Ownership: Champagne Louis Roederer group
- Closure: Cork
- Drinking Window: 2027–2040
