2019 Bernard Faurie Hermitage Bessards Meal

Bernard Faurie |Northern Rhone Valley |Shiraz
An intense and pure wine that screams Hermitage Syrah with its beautiful fruit and spice characters

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The Bernard Faurie Hermitage Bessards Meal is a 60/40 split of the two vineyards which positively bursts with purity, ripeness and elegance.

Coming from vines aged between 80 and 100 years, you can almost taste the history in each glass. Compared to his Greffieux Bessards, everything here is just that little bit more opulent and energetic, with beautioful dark druits, spice, herbal tones and minerality coming through on the nose and palate.

This is the kind of wine that needs lots of air before drinking, and preferably a lot more time in the cellar, so that everything can unwind slowly. And when it does, you'll be in for a real treat.

Gold capsule. Faurie farms just 0.2 hectares of Le Méal, which was planted in the 1940s. As the name suggests, in 2019 this was blended with selected parcels from his near-100-year-old vineyard at Les Bessards. With its direct southerly exposure Le Méal is perhaps the hill’s warmest site, and produces the most layered and hedonistic wine of the area. Faurie calls the wines from here “vin noblesse”, in this blend providing the opulence and texture. The Bessards component gives “the skeleton”—the wine’s structure and mineral drive—as well as lifted perfume. This particular blend is roughly 60% Les Bessards and 40% Le Méal, assembled at harvest time.


As for all of Faurie’s reds, this was 100% whole-bunch, and the winemaking was the same as for the wine above. It was bottled unfiltered, by hand, from two used demi-muids. Faurie describes this wine as “une force” and he’s right. It’s a Hermitage of devastating intensity and power, with more depth and a darker fruit profile than the wine above. Decades will not weary it!

Price Bracket $101 and Above
Type Red
Body Medium Bodied
Variety Shiraz
Country France
Region Northern Rhone Valley
Alcohol 14%
Size 750ml
Vintage 2019
Closure Cork

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