[0.5] Blinds at Ungrafted w/ Andrea (Ungrafted, SF):
(blind)
Deep opaque ruby.
heavy, ripe fruit-forward nose. Slight funky - reduction or mushrooms maybe? Something vegetal but not pyrazines - tomato leaf.
slight dark note - maybe reduction, maybe pepper. Hard to tell.
Dry, high alcohol - 14.5% (actually 12.5%!), high acid - very sour, almost aggressively sour, elevated tannings.
This is a wild wine. Dark color, big body, ripe fruit, elevated acid:
- Cab - doesn't feel right because no pyrazines, no oak, fruit feels underripe plum
- Malbec - could fit, but it's so sour.
- Syrah - too sour for Australia, too ripe for N rhone.
Final call: 2022 Malbec, Argentina.
Syrah from crozes-hermitage 2020.
Analysis
- alcohol - I called it higher - it's actually 12.5%
- logic: should have double-clicked on N Rhone.
Overall this is a really clean, really fruit-forward, and really sour syrah.
Score: 2 misses
