98 pts – Wine Advocate
The 2003 Hermitage Ex Voto is more beefy and meaty, with decadent dark fruits, iron, beef blood, leather and crushed rock-like qualities all soaring from the glass. Coming from the Les Bessards, l’Ermite, Les Greffieux and the Les Murets parcels, it has the highest alcohol of the lineup, yet you wouldn’t know it by tasting it. It’s a spectacular Hermitage that has incredible richness, massive concentration and blockbuster length. The most youthful of the lineup, it will be better in another 4-5 years and absolutely thrill over the following 2-3 decades. – eRobertParker.com, JD (4/2014)
93 pts – Vinous
Ruby-red. Fresh raspberry and cherry on the nose, with a suave floral quality adding complexity. Seemed to gain freshness with air, the fruit picking up zesty minerality and sexy baking spices. Undeniably rich but this possesses uncanny elegance and vivacity for an Hermitage, much less one from this hot vintage.- Josh Raynolds (01/2008)
