Community Tasting Note

forceberry wrote:

Wednesday, September 3, 2014 - Tasted blind.

Pale, slightly reddish peach-orange color. Somewhat stuffy and slightly sweaty-pungent nose with aromas of unripe wild strawberries, some ripe cherry-driven red fruit, a little bit of reductive gunpowder smoke and a hint of leesy yeast character. The wine is dry and crisp on the palate with medium body and rather one-dimensional flavors of red-fruit driven notes of red cherries and wild strawberries, a little bit of chalky mineral bitterness and a hint of grapefruit. The mousse feels very ample, rather foamy and surprisingly persistent whereas the acidity is only medium to moderately high. The finish is dry, spicy and pretty light in intensity with flavors of chalky mineral bitterness, a little bit of red cherry, a hint of earthy character and a touch of pithy grapefruit.

Ehh. A simple, rather underwhelming and somewhat (unpleasantly) bitter rosé bubbly. My guess was a German rosé Sekt with rather short bottle-aging regime on the lees, based on how very little there was autolytic character here. Overall the wine is simple, straightforward and lacking in character and complexity. I really don't see why anyone would want to buy this kind of stuff when you can have much more impressive grower Champagnes at noticeably lower prices. Overpriced at 52,90€. Not recommended.

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