Community Tasting Note

forceberry wrote:

Tuesday, March 31, 2015 - Translucent garnet red color with a hint of developed orange hue. Very powerful, sweet and ridiculously oak-driven nose with pronounced aromas of toasty caramel oak, savory woody character, ripe cranberry, some meaty umami character, a little bit of cola and a hint of vanilla. There's very little fruity here in contrast to the woody notes. The wine is moderate-to-full-bodied, spicy and woody on the palate with heavy emphasis on the toasty oak: toffee, sweet and toasty oak spice, some vanilla, a little bit of overripe cranberries, a hint of cherry liqueur and a touch of caramel. The alcohol pushes a little bit through and the wine feels very soft and mellow due to the low acidity and very mellow, borderline nonexistent tannins. There is some sense of grip to the aftertaste, but it doesn't feel like grip from grape tannins, but instead from heavily extracted, astringent wood tannins. The aftertaste is long, sweet-toned and somewhat robust with flavors of rough woody spice, vanilla, toffee, some almost jammy dark berries, a little bit of Cognac spice and a hint of earthy Pinosity. The finish feels somewhat dull and lacking in intensity due to the low acidity.

A real disgrace to a Pinot Noir. Instead of showing the typical brightness, verve and complexity of this grape, this wine shows barely nothing else but wood and there is no sense of acidity - which in my books is a vital component of any well-made Pinot Noir. This really isn't a Pinot Noir, but instead a generic, anonymous wine that is all about oak and alcohol, not fruit or structure. I really can't understand for the life of me why some wineries insist on planting Pinot Noir in regions where the variety just doesn't succeed. The results can be seen in wines like these. Repugnant stuff that bears no resemblance to a Pinot Noir, a rip-off at 22,90€.

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