Community Tasting Note

forceberry wrote:

Thursday, March 20, 2014 - Deep and intense golden yellow color, borderline dessert wine appearance. The nose is quite light and reticent with rather pronounced sweet, caramel oak, some toffee, a little bit of crème à la vanille and a hint of dried yellow stone fruits. The wine is medium-bodied and bone-dry on the palate with very pronounced, racy acidity. There are flavors of creamy oak, lemony citrus fruits, some tart gooseberry character, a little bit of sweet oak spice and a hint of pineapple. The wine is really bright and sharp on the palate. The finish is quite long and a bit warm with acid-driven flavors of green apples, lemony citrus fruits, moderately pronounced sweet oak spice, a little bit of vanilla and a hint of caramel.

A bright, structured and complex white Graves that shows nice intensity, but lack of balance - the light body of the wine and its racy, acid-driven flavors really don't match the sweet, creamy oak character at all. I think the wine would've performed either way, as a more ripe and rich wine with equally pronounced oak character or then a light-bodied and acid-driven white wine with a lot less oak character. Now the wine feels like it tries to be two wines at once, but performing rather indifferently at both. I doubt that further cellaring will help the wine much. This is decent stuff at best, failed to convince me.

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