Domaine Paul Jaboulet Aîné La Chapelle Hermitage 2019 Solomon 18L

Domaine Paul Jaboulet Aîné La Chapelle Hermitage 2019 Solomon 18L is a Syrah from the Rhône with black fruit, smoke and granite depth, built for long cellaring. This is La Chapelle in its most dramatic bottle size. The 18 litre Solomon feels made for a long table, a cellar corner and a patient occasion.

About the Wine
The 2019 La Chapelle comes from Syrah on the Hermitage hill, the granite rise above Tain-l'Hermitage that carries the small chapel in the wine's name. Domaines Paul Jaboulet Aîné farms for this bottling under a sustainable certification, and the wine draws its dark line from the granitic slope. In this vintage, the fruit sits in the black plum and cassis register with a savoury edge of olive, pepper and warm stone. Jaboulet's La Chapelle is selected for depth and longevity from the hill that has defined the house for generations. After fermentation, the 2019 spent 18 months in French oak barriques, with new and used barrels in the mix. The élevage marks the wine through cocoa, mocha and a polished edge around the tannins. It keeps the Syrah close to its Hermitage identity with smoke, crushed rock and roasted meat notes threaded through the fruit. Bitter chocolate and salted liquorice appear on the finish, with the peppery grip of this young 2019 La Chapelle. The 18 litre Solomon will age slowly in bottle, and the wine still shows a dense purple core.

Tasting Notes
Dark purple in the glass, the 2019 La Chapelle smells of plum preserve, black currant and cherry liqueur before a darker trail of incense and smoke arrives. The palate is full and densely packed, with blue fruit, cassis paste and cocoa wrapped in velvety tannin and a dry 13.5% frame. Air brings out olive tapenade, roasted meat and crushed granite, tying the wine to the chapel slope above Tain rather than to ripe Syrah alone. Black pepper, salted liquorice and bitter chocolate stretch through a long finish, and the grip feels young for a bottle of this scale. Drink 2025-2045.

Food Pairing
Pour this La Chapelle with braised beef cheek, venison haunch or a rib of beef rested under thyme, and give the wine time in a large glass. A Rhône-minded plate would be caillette ardéchoise with lentils from Le Puy, where the herb and pork notes meet the wine's pepper, smoke and olive. With game, wild boar daube brings enough depth for the cassis and cocoa side of the 2019, and the sauce can take the wine's salted liquorice finish. For cheese, choose aged Saint-Marcellin or mature Comté, where the nutty rind and firm texture sit comfortably beside the tannin of a young Hermitage poured from a Solomon.

Producer
Domaines Paul Jaboulet Aîné has been part of Tain-l'Hermitage since the nineteenth century after the Jaboulet family founded the house in 1834, and its identity is tied to the hill above the town through La Chapelle and its old chapel image. La Chapelle is its central reference in the Northern Rhône, and the cuvée takes its name from the small Saint-Christophe chapel on the Hermitage hill, a landmark above the river that still appears in the imagination before the cork moves. The Frey family took over in 2006, with Caroline Frey bringing the vineyard focus she had built at Château La Lagune into Jaboulet's Rhône cellars and into the selection work behind the top wines. For La Chapelle, the house reads Hermitage as a set of distinct faces such as Bessards and Méal, then makes a single Syrah with a deep savoury register and a measured oak frame. The famous 1961 La Chapelle still shadows the domaine, and the modern bottles carry that reputation under closer vineyard control, finer oak handling and a darker fruit profile that feels clear in 2019. On this 2019 Solomon, the historic label looks almost architectural on the glass, with the black and gold design stretched across an 18 litre bottle built for a serious cellar dinner.

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