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| Community Tasting Notes (average 92.4 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 10 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by forceberry on 7/25/2017 flawed bottle: Gravner's first commercial skin-contact white ever. 13% alcohol. Served blind.
Cloudy dark bronze color. Pungent, thoroughly oxidized and dead nose with aromas of stale rye bread, earth and a hint of rancid butter. Quite unpleasant and disagreeable nose. The wine is medium-bodied on the palate with quite high acidity. The flavors are long past their peak with unpleasant flavors of stale rye bread, rancid butter, some mushroomy earth and a hint of mouldy apple. The finish is long and dead with unpleasant, oxidized flavors of rancid butter, stale bread, mouldy apple and peanut butter.
This wine was unfortunately long past its peak and completely oxidized. There was nothing left of the wine and the overall aroma and taste were really unpleasant. Quite a shame, I had been looking forward tasting older Gravners. (1720 views) | | | Tasted by Loren Sonkin on 4/12/2017 & rated 94 points: Orange, Sicily, Cowan and some others (Chagrin Falls): I brought this from home to add. It can be difficult to find a time to open wines like this and this had sat in my cellar for a long time waiting for the right time. Actually, I had intentionally let it sit to see how these age. IIRC, this is Pignolo. After this vintage, they didn't make it for a while due to frost damage. For some reason I thought this was also before the amphorae era, but the rep said disagreed and thought it was always in amphorae. In any event, we decanted the wine but that wasn't really necessary. There was not a lot of sediment. Golden in color. The nose is really nice; hazelnuts, orange rind, slight honey and minerals. On the palate, this is one of the most complex white wines I have ever had. Just so much going on but so well orchestrated. It doesn't seem to have budged much since I first had it maybe 15 or so years ago. It may have tasted "old" then, it tastes young for 22 now. Orange rind, nutty, and mineral drive with fresh acidity. Long finish. Not sure what the crowd thought, but for me this was gorgeous. (2333 views) | | | Tasted by LoireFan on 4/10/2013 & rated 91 points: Five years later this wine declined a bit. Drink up. (2608 views) | | | Tasted by LoireFan on 10/28/2008 & rated 92 points: Maybe 93-94. Still too young, needs at least five more years. (4050 views) | | | Tasted by 5laton on 10/25/2008: Some Wines at Jack & Joanne's: Oxidative sherry-like nose, cream soda, quite lactic. Nice weight and nuttiness on the palate, with quinine and bitter herbs. Awkward and a little out of sorts, but seems to have good potential. Needs time? (4424 views) | | | Tasted by cousteau on 3/4/2007 & rated 92 points: Tough one to judge. The first notes were weird and hinting for an overaged white. Burnt toast with butter, walnuts and almonds mixed with an oxidized note and some oak. On the mouth it was very pleasing with a great structure, body and balance. Still showing nice acidity and very complex flavors, the finish lasts for over a minute. (3597 views) | | | Tasted by Johann Von Mastiff on 1/5/2007 & rated 94 points: Still pale gold in color. Aromas of baked bread, honeycomb, toasty oak, quince and my mom's baked apples. The pallet is long and lingering with firm acid and a tight grained finish. (3488 views) | | | Tasted by Xavier Auerbach on 10/5/2001 & rated 92 points: Deep colour; lots of new oak, very Burgundian, steely, certainly not fruit-driven, good balance; very impressive. (1202 views) |
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