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The Sorrel family first set root in Hermitage in 1893, when estate founder Félix Alexandre Sorrel purchased land in ‘Les Bessards,’ the south-facing backbone of the finest Hermitage Rouge wines. Today, the family’s third generation of winemakers—indeed, three Sorrel brothers (Jacques, Jean-Michel and Bruno, or JMB)—tend the family’s few acres of land, crafting but a handful of bottles each vintage. Plowing by horse, picking by hand, aging in older cask; here the traditions of classic Hermitage wines are as alive and treasured, as they were centuries ago. The brothers’ Hermitage wines are stately yet supple, utterly refined in aroma and texture and crucially, wonderfully long-lived.