{"product_id":"domaine-paul-jaboulet-aine-la-chapelle-hermitage-2015","title":"Domaine Paul Jaboulet Aîné La Chapelle Hermitage 2015","description":"\u003cp\u003eDomaine Paul Jaboulet Aîné La Chapelle Hermitage 2015 is a Syrah from Rhône's Hermitage hill with black fruit, smoke, granite grip and long ageing depth. It feels dark and tightly coiled with the chapel cuvée's stern mineral line already in place. Open it slowly. This is Hermitage for a cellar, a decanter and a table that can handle serious Syrah.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Wine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLa Chapelle comes from Syrah grown on the Hermitage hill, with Jaboulet's historic holdings clustered around the slope that gives the cuvée its name. The 2015 Domaine Paul Jaboulet Aîné La Chapelle Hermitage carries biodynamic certification, and that detail matters in a wine built from such exposed granite terraces. The soil note here goes beyond broad stony talk. Granite shows in the wine as a cold, dark mineral seam that runs through the black fruit. The small chapel of Saint-Christophe sits above this part of the hill, and the cuvée has long taken its identity from that landmark.\n\nFor vinification and élevage, Jaboulet keeps the 2015 La Chapelle firmly in the grand Hermitage register. The wine is dry, 13.5% alcohol and aged for 18 months in French oak barriques. The mix of new and older oak brings dark spice, cedar and pencil shaving detail around the fruit. The barrique ageing sits close to the wine's core, adding espresso tones that echo the Syrah's black olive edge. It adds a faint smoky polish to a wine that already smells of roasted meat and dark stone. The finished wine lands in bottle with an inky colour and a tannic architecture that still feels carved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTasting Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 2015 La Chapelle opens in a deep register of black cherry and blueberry, then moves into cassis and black olive with a distinct Jaboulet note of smoked game as the first pour takes on air in the glass. Granite comes through as crushed stone and iron filings, and the fruit feels packed into a narrow channel that gives the palate a stern Hermitage shape with a faint volcanic rock note under the fruit. The tannins are serious and close-grained, with espresso and pencil shavings layered over cracked black pepper on the long finish after an hour in a decanter. The colour is still inky and youthful for 2015, and the wine carries its power with the contained stance that made La Chapelle famous from the first smell through the last echo. Drink 2025-2055.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFood Pairing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStart with rib of beef cooked rare and give the 2015 La Chapelle a pan sauce with thyme and bone marrow for the wine's peppered black fruit. Game sits even closer to its smoked Syrah character, especially venison loin with juniper or roast pigeon with black olive jus. For a regional choice, pour it with a Rhône Valley daube of beef scented with orange peel and bay. The sauce's orange peel picks up the wine's lift, and the slow-cooked beef meets the granite grip in the tannins. Aged Comté or a firm ewe's milk cheese fits the final glass, especially after the bottle has been open long enough for the espresso and smoke notes to settle into the fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProducer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDomaines Paul Jaboulet Aîné is tied to Hermitage through La Chapelle, a name taken from the small Saint-Christophe chapel that looks over the hill above Tain-l'Hermitage and anchors the identity of this cuvée. The house was founded in 1834, and the Frey family has owned it since 2006 with Caroline Frey guiding a quieter and more vineyard-led era for the old Rhône domaine. One concrete shift under her watch is biodynamic farming across key estate vineyards, including the steep granite ground behind this cuvée and the Hermitage parcels that feed its structure. La Chapelle has a reputation built on long ageing, with the 1961 often cited as one of the great twentieth-century Rhône bottles and the 2015 made in a similarly serious register. Jaboulet treats this wine as the flagship, and the élevage has room for 18 months in French barriques with oak that reads as cedar and espresso around the Syrah. The producer's signature here is a sense of contained force, shown through black olive fruit, smoke and a mineral line that feels specific to the Hermitage hill above Tain-l'Hermitage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paul Jaboulet Aîné","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54252171723089,"sku":"PS-7730886082760","price":188.24,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0874\/0614\/9969\/files\/LaChapelleHermitage_33f8b909-2507-4e47-8d5b-ef7b896c820c.png?v=1783443565","url":"https:\/\/bottlehero.com\/products\/domaine-paul-jaboulet-aine-la-chapelle-hermitage-2015","provider":"Bottle Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}