Domaine Marc Sorrel Hermitage Le Gréal Rouge 2023

100 Points, Parker’s Wine Advocate
The 2023 Hermitage Le Gréal is exquisite, wafting from the glass with an exotic bouquet of wisteria, violet, cassis, mulberries and pepper. Full-bodied, velvety and enveloping, it’s built around a fleshy, even unctuous core of fruit underpinned by a delicate chassis of sweet, powdery and perfectly integrated tannins, concluding with a long, ethereal, violet-inflected finish. One of the most precise and seamless renditions of Le Gréal in recent years, it remains harmonious and finely balanced, representing the essence of this remarkable address. Domaine Marc Sorrel, based in Tain-l’Hermitage, remains a small, firmly rooted estate on the hill, with four hectares split between 2.5 hectares in Hermitage—across five lieux-dits—and 1.5 hectares in Crozes-Hermitage. Now in its fourth generation, the domaine has entered a new phase with the arrival of Guillaume Sorrel, whose first vintage was 2018. The transition remains measured, but Guillaume brings a more precise vision, both in the vineyard and in the cellar. He pushes the use of whole bunches further and introduces a form of precision viticulture, refining decisions parcel by parcel without altering the domaine’s underlying identity.

100 Points, James Suckling
The floral and wild berry beauty of this wine doesn’t lie in its enormous concentration and drive, but in the mind-blowing finesse and incredible silkiness of this great masterpiece of delicacy. Where are abundant alcohol and taninns that this unique expression of Hermitage must have? They are in there somewhere, but the wine feels totally weightless. From vineyards planted in 1926 by the winemaker’s grandfather in the Les Greffieux and Le Meal sections of the hill of Hermitage.