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2017 Skerk Carso Ograde

White Blend

  • Italy
  • Friuli-Venezia Giulia
  • Carso
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Community Tasting Notes 3

  • marco.curzi88@gmail.com wrote: 89 points

    July 21, 2023 - il tappo si è sgretolato all'apertura. nonostante questo, vino in formissima, colore molto spinto (macerazione e pinot grigio aiutano), naso di agrumi e fiori, albicocche, nespole, fieno e miele. in bocca è ben equilibrato, mi aspettavo una spinta verticale maggiore. buona lunghezza, bottiglia molto interessante.

  • bevetroppo wrote:

    February 1, 2020 - I have no vocabulary for this wine-drinking experience. I might have had a shot at the country from the front label, but it would only have been a guess and it wouldn't have been Italy on the first try. I am not sure, but I think Skerk is the producer and Ograde the name of the wine. Thanks to the back label, I see it's a field blend of equal parts vitovska (?!), malvasia, sauvignon and pinot grigio.

    And the electric orange color? Like nothing I've ever seen before. I suspect the wine is largely natural but that color looks like it escaped from a lava lamp or like slightly dilute orange Kool Aid.

    Since I have no familiarity with vitovska, it's hard to attribute any varietal accuracy to the nose, which definitely smells like something. It would take more patience and interest than I possess to unpack it: candied orange like those jelly things your grandmother used to buy, lots of pith, buzzy pinot grigio notes, I'm sure a better, more motivated taster would find more.

    It tastes like a pithy, bitter orange pinot grigio to me, more like a Negroni in color and profile than a typical wine. So despite the fact that I pride myself on being both open-minded and informed about wine in general, I can't say I get this. Or better said, I'm pretty sure I won't get it again. Glad to know that orange wine exists, and equally glad someone else will be drinking it.

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  • Terjec wrote: 92 points

    January 11, 2020 - Italiener utenom det vanlige! Dufter av roseblader. Smaker av søte
    bringebær. Flott balansert og svært vellaget vin. Lett rosa på farge. Slike
    smaker gir meg tilbake troen på oransjeviner.

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  • By Ian D'Agata
    Friuli Venezia Giulia: The New Releases (Jan 2020), 1/1/2020 (link)

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Wine Definition

  • Vintage 2017
  • Type Orange
  • Producer Skerk
  • Varietal White Blend
  • Designation Ograde
  • Vineyard n/a
  • Country Italy
  • Region Friuli-Venezia Giulia
  • SubRegion n/a
  • Appellation Carso
  • UPC Code 7070292859894

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  • In Cellars 15 (38%)
  • Consumed 25 (63%)

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