Community Tasting Note

David Paris (dbp) wrote:

Wednesday, June 20, 2012 - My first of his "Rosé"s. Honestly, the color isn't that much more rose colored than his Contadino. In fact, this even more orange than those wines, and perhaps not even as good. Still very good. I did my usual thing and stood this up for sometime before hand, opened it, and poured it all into a decanter, leaving the lees in the bottle. As is usual with these, the profile shifts dramatically over time, so its hard to write a note (for which minute am I writing it?). But overall, the aromas are slightly medicinal, with a delicious herbal aroma after considerable time in glass. These wines definitely smooth out considerably with air, and after 3 hours this was twice as good smelling as on first opening, where it was quite astringent. Three hours in it's delicious wet stone and berries. The palate is fairly thin with a yiesty texture but perhaps not as yiesty a flavor as first poured (though it's certainly there). Some mild red fruit core as well. The finish is acidic and tart, with plenty of yiesty character. After a few moments an odd clout takes over... almost like tannins, but it's bitter and puckering like acid. It just envelops the palate after swallowing the way tannins do. A very odd, and of course fun wine for the geeks. In no way over the hill, as this is the first one I've had despite buying it over 3 years ago. I'll look to try the 2010 soon, and then age my remaining 2008 for some amount of time after.

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