Chapoutier's portfolio hardly needs an introduction, with even the humble Côtes-du-Rhône a wine well worth anyone's time. As they're based in the Northern Rhône, it's hardly surprising that the top of their portfolio has a huge focus on that area, with Hermitage being their particular strength.

Indeed, their single-vineyard Ermitages/Hermitages are some of the world's great wines and the whites are particularly distinctive, being some of the most ageworthy dry whites; consider that Robert Parker's note for the Ermitage de l'Orée suggested it "may last 50-100 years".