2020 Paul Jaboulet Hermitage La Maison Bleue

Replacing the Petit Chapelle cuvee and first made in 2015, the 2020 Hermitage La Maison Bleue is smoking good. Black fruits, charcoal, powdered rock, currants and chocolate notes all give way to a big, concentrated, impressively structures barrel sample that has tons of potential. I expect the tannin will have integrated by the time this is released, but a few years of bottle age still recommended.