Community Tasting Note

enjoyfinewines wrote:

Thursday, February 12, 2009 - This wine is coming from what experts from China and abroad deem as the most ideal ecological zone in China to grow top quality wine grapes according to one of its owners, Broadbent Selections. I tasted this wine during my studies at the Professional Culinary Institute in early 2009 while we were learning about wines from Asia. SIGHT: clear, bright, orange/red, pink/orange rim. AROMAS: it's clean and relatively young, but smells like mature antique teak wood (in wine speak: volatile acids like acetone, varnish aromas that can appear with modern ultra-clean winemaking), very ripe dark cherries, damp earth, ripe potatoes, leather, raw dark mushrooms. FLAVORS: medium bodied, bone dry, crisp red apples, crisp red cherries, cranberries, green bell peppers (which sometimes is a Cabernet Sauvignon marker), earth, tobacco. They need riper fruit and as the winery matures, their wines will probably continue to improve just like so many other wineries and wine regions that were not normally known for wines but have now become well known and respected. ALCOHOL: 12.5%.

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