Domaines Paul Jaboulet Aîné La Chapelle Hermitage 2015 MAGNUM

Domaines Paul Jaboulet Aîné La Chapelle Hermitage 2015 MAGNUM is a Syrah from the Rhône with black fruit, smoke and granite depth in a large bottle format. This is the grand red of Jaboulet in a serious vintage. Expect dark fruit, pepper, iron and a long cellar life shaped by Hermitage granite.

About the Wine
The 2015 Domaines Paul Jaboulet Aîné La Chapelle Hermitage MAGNUM comes from Syrah grown on the granite hill of Hermitage in the northern Rhône. La Chapelle takes its name from the small chapel above the river, and the wine has long been the house’s flagship red. The farming is biodynamic, which fits the current Jaboulet focus on detailed vineyard work and parcel expression. In 2015 the fruit gives a deep, compact feel from the start. The magnum format suits this wine’s scale, as the dark Syrah fruit has room to age slowly in bottle. Vinification and élevage keep the frame serious. The wine is dry, with 13.5% alcohol, and it spent 18 months in French oak barriques. The cellar used a mix of new and used barrels. That oak register shows as pencil shaving, espresso and a faint toast note under the black cherry and blueberry core. The granite side of Hermitage comes through as iron, crushed stone and a cool mineral edge on the finish.

Tasting Notes
The colour is almost black at the centre, with a purple rim that still looks dense and youthful for a 2015 Hermitage in magnum. The nose opens with black cherry, blueberry, cassis and smoked meat, then moves into cracked black pepper, black olive, iron and warm stone. The palate is broad and firmly built, with chewy tannins that carry espresso, pencil shaving, dark fruit skin and a savoury game note across a long finish. There is a real La Chapelle sense of mass here, with the granite edge tightening the final impression and keeping the fruit in a dark, compact line. Drink 2025-2055.

Food Pairing
This bottle wants food with depth and fat. A dry-aged côte de boeuf, seared hard and served rare, will meet the tannin and draw out the wine’s black pepper and smoked meat notes. Venison loin with juniper, roasted pigeon, or a slow braised beef cheek will also sit well with the dark fruit and iron character of this 2015 La Chapelle. For a regional direction, choose civet de sanglier from the Ardèche, with red wine sauce, herbs and root vegetables. Aged Comté, old Tomme de Savoie or a firm sheep’s milk cheese will bring out the espresso, olive and stony finish in the magnum.

Producer
Domaines Paul Jaboulet Aîné is inseparable from La Chapelle, the Hermitage cuvée named for the small Saint-Christophe chapel that sits above the Rhône. That label has carried the house’s reputation for generations, and its best bottles can age for decades with a distinct mix of black fruit, smoke, iron and granite grip. The Frey family took over Jaboulet in 2006, and Caroline Frey has put the vineyard at the centre of the estate’s modern identity. Biodynamic farming is now part of that work, which matters for a domaine with Syrah rooted in one of the most exposed and recognisable slopes in the northern Rhône. La Chapelle is the bottle in the range where Jaboulet’s Hermitage holdings are most closely watched, from vine selection to the long élevage in French oak. In magnum, the 2015 shows the house at its most solemn and powerful, with a dark mineral line that feels tied to the hill itself.

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