Community Tasting Note

forceberry wrote:

Saturday, April 7, 2018 - A blend of Callet, Mantonegro and Fogoneu (total 80%) with some Syrah (20%). Aged for 13 months in French (80%) and American (20%) barriques of which a proportion was new. 13% alcohol. Tasted blind.

Moderately translucent and rather developed cherry red color with a mature maroon hue. Juicy, ripe and quite rich nose with aromas of sweet blackcurrants, some dried dark fruits, a little bit of plummy fruit, hints of savory oak spice and a touch of tomato leaf. The wine feels moderately full-bodied, somewhat developed and quite oaky on the palate with flavors of toasty oak spice, ripe plummy fruit, some ripe blackcurrant, a little bit of blackberry jam, oaky hints of woody bitterness and dark chocolate and a touch of tomato. The wine is quite balanced with moderately high acidity and surprisingly firm and ample - yet not aggressive - tannins. The finish is quite rich, somewhat developed and quite oak-forward with intense flavors of milk chocolate, some blackcurrant jam, light blackberry marmalade notes, a little bit of ripe plummy fruit, hints of cocoa and a touch of woody bitterness.

It came as a surprise that this wine was a Mallorcan wine well past its 15 year mark. You just don't think of Balearic wines when a glass of developed, bold and quite tannic red wine is in front of you, blind. The wine was still not only wonderfully alive, but still climbing its way up - most likely this wine has still years left before it is on its plateau of maturity and even then it will have still years of mileage left. Overall the wine was a bit too heavily oaked for my taste, but otherwise a very impressive and tasty effort. Very nice stuff, hopefully the wood tones will continue to integrate with the fruit.

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