2019 Bernard Faurie Hermitage Greffieux Bessards

Highly Rated
Bernard Faurie |Northern Rhone Valley |Shiraz
Perfumed and intensely-fruited, this rare Rhone Syrah is insanely good.

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From two of the most famous plots in Hermitage, the Bernard Faurie Hermitage Greffieux Bessards is a superb wine that perfectly illustrates while this hill in the Rhone valley is so admired.

While the two plots border each other, Bessards has more granite, and Faurie believes it should be part of every great Hermitage rouge. Made with 100% whole bunches in old vats and then matured in used oak, the fruit absolutely sparkles, with superb structure and depth of flavour and body, supported by shining acidity.

You may be tempted to open this wine now but give it at least a few more years in order for it to show its best.

White capsule. A minuscule amount of this Hermitage rouge (just 50-100 dozen) is made each year, depending on the size of the harvest. We do very well to get the allocation that we receive. As the name suggests, this comes from Syrah vines with their roots in both the Greffieux and Bessards terroirs on the hill of Hermitage. Faurie’s Greffieux parcel was planted by his great-grandfather in the ’20s and ’30s, and lies on the rockier granite seam in this vineyard (which is otherwise sandy with rolled, alluvial stones). This is said to bring a juicy, perfumed personality—which partners so well with the darker, more structured, muscular and mineral-etched fruit of Les Bessards. Les Bessards borders both Les Greffieux and Le Méal. It’s a steeply terraced hillside vineyard with a southwest exposure. The soil is pure granite with gravel over bedrock. Many growers will tell you that the granitic spine of Bessards is sine qua non to great Hermitage.


The 2019 blend, Faurie’s final vintage of this wine, comes in at the traditional 60% Bessards and 40% Greffieux and the winemaking was the same as always: 100% whole-bunch fermentation (Faurie does not own a destemmer) in an old wooden vat for 18-21 days; then maturation in used oak. The wine was not fined and was bottled by hand.

95 Points - “An intensely perfumed nose displays mineral-accented red and blue fruit and floral pastille scents that pick up smoky bacon and exotic spice flourishes with air. In a concentrated yet lively style, offering appealingly sweet cherry, blueberry, spicecake and candied violet flavors braced by a spine of juicy acidity. Shows outstanding clarity and tension on a wonderfully persistent, floral-driven finish framed by fine-grained, slow-building tannins.” 95-97 points, Josh Reynolds (Vinous)

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