Community Tasting Note

austinwinesalon wrote:

Sunday, December 12, 2010 - The Other Great French Blancs: Champagne and Sauternes (Wink Restaurant, Austin, Texas): So pink! Sweeter than the Krug, the previous wine in the line-up, it had a weird intriguing character amid strong notes of strawberry. With a deep salmon pink color, it had fine and persistent bubbles and was very bright and fresh, with high acidity and a good nose of strawberries, rose, toast, some orange zest and green apple skin. A few tasters noticed a slight hint of autolysis (toast) and acetone, but the wine was well-liked. It had high acidity and notes of, again, frozen and ripe strawberries, raspberries, flowers, meyer lemon, some faint pineapple and honeysuckle, and chalky minerality. It was well-balanced and rich, and had a nice finish, with strawberry and green apple showing through. A few cognoscenti thought that this bottle did not show well, but it might have been the company it was keeping here, as most tasters liked the wine fine, it just wasn’t the favorite in a solid group of rosés.

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