description: Delas's big bottling of Hermitage blends three sites, including Les Bessards and L'Hermite to make a Hermitage that should be relatively easy to find at close to 2,000 cases produced. The 2005 is a muscular wine with dusty tannins that demands cellaring, even though it does show attractive notes of cassis and a distinctive blood-iron-mineral streak. Try after 2015.
variety: Syrah
designation: Marquise de la Tourette