Community Tasting Note

Heynetty Does not like this wine:

Monday, August 6, 2018 - Tasted Blind

A: Medium lemon
N: Yeast, lemon, what i thought was some honey was actually light vanilla, phenolic bitterness, stonefruit. The yeast seemed overbearing here which rather hid the wet stone. Medium (+) nose
P: Dry, medium (+) acidity, phenolic bitterness, alcohol felt high but was only medium (13%), full body, medium (+) intensity and finish.
C: Drink now. Its a pretty neutral wine.

GUESSES:
Warm climate as i thought the alcohol was high. New world owing to the style and the fact, i could barely detect the wet stone. Guessed the grape was an odd pinot gris or viognier. There was stone fruit here.

MISTAKES:
Oh so many! The phenolic bitterness was definitely there. It might have been derived from the barrel. It completely confused me, add to that the crazy amounts of yeast and this could have been a PG. However, thinking about it stale beer rather than yeast is what I find at the end of a glass of PG. The yeast aroma may have been caused by battonage but I would associate that practice with pricier burgundies. Don’t know if it was a great example of a burgundy and at WSET 4 level, we are not tested on Borgogne Blanc, thankfully.
I wonder why there was such a burn to the throat on this one when the alcohol was merely medium.

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