Wild right from the cork pull with dry candied peach. Blastingly floral, nuanced at the same time. Fresh as a daisy. One of the best starts to a bottle I’ve had in recent memory. This is going to be one for the books. Drink to 2030 at least.
Day 2. Cloudy, apple juice. Tannic leach aromas. Very marmalade flavor and aroma.
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For the first time in a little while. Still quite turbid. After about 2 hours open...
At pop and pour there was a rather abrasive first impression. Not hot, but not to fine. 10-20 minutes in the glass really brought this around, right quick. Showing fruit and such. Now back to 2 hours in, ripe ripe, ripe pear fruit aromas. Candied apple. That's the Cheninality shining through? Verging on apple sauce, but that's just getting presumptuous. Day 2. Big apple and fruity. Quite decadent, yet drinkable. Day 3. Wow. Candied apple aroma. Green apple jolly rancher aroma. I do have a soft spot in my heart for that one. Absolutely wild. On the palate a licorice note, that started to emerge is now more front and center. A little menthol/evergreen. Ripe sweet lime on the palate. Day 7. Aromas are still in the same vicinity as day 3. A heady fruit on the palate. Like the wild in wild strawberry, but apple/raspberry.
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Beautiful warm deep gold. Apricot, vanilla and floral nose. Rich complex palate. Interesting wine. Not sure what to compare it too - unlike any other chenin blanc I have had.
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The end of affairs at the Waterford tasting. Chenin Blanc at both ends of the rainbow. Here, I feel the hand of the winemaker more than I'd like to. That the 2010 Folk Machine CB "skater" that began the tasting was crafted from the same batch of fuit just boggles. With that wine I got a sense that the maker's technique fulfilled the grapes' destinies honestly and deliciously. Here, it seems like the fruit and where it comes from almost doesn't matter. Still pretty tasty, but if anything about sense of place speaks to your soul you might feel as I did the next morning: a little bit dirty.
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I have underestimated the 2010 vintage. Or maybe I have underestimated my capacity to understand the 2010 vintage. Thus giving truth to the quote "sooner or later, your favorite wine."
Here, in the glass: that "clay" or skin contact-y nose that I associate with Gravner. The golden peaches of Samarkan. The palate is dense with texture. Rich, almost like it is going to be dusty but then smooth and refined.
Underestimated because now it seems to have put on weight and richness in the mid palate. Not weight, not richness, but a little bit more roundness -- curves to it.
An intellectual wine to be sure, but still delcious.
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The color here, relative to the '09 is finally getting into the orange side of gold. Like the sun breaking through some trees in the distance and a romantic tennis match goes on in the foreground. Med(-) copper. Passion fruit, light banana aromas. Black licorice. Palate is out of sight...bright, fine, mineral, the fan of a peacock tail. A crazy experience on the palate. Low tannin, soft smoke, fruits are white and green and fleshy. DAY 10. Drank only a quarter of the bottle and then let it ride out in the fridge for the last 10 days. palate shows some wild and lean tropical fruit. in the banana realm, but much more enjoyable than my brain normally interprets banana in wine. just a little bit of anise on the palate, but really all about the texture. low tannin, but tannin all the same. looking back at day 1 note, this has perhaps carved a glacial path. (menthol and raspberry??) BUY BUY BUY
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3/8/2018 - nzinkgraf wrote:
Wild right from the cork pull with dry candied peach. Blastingly floral, nuanced at the same time. Fresh as a daisy. One of the best starts to a bottle I’ve had in recent memory. This is going to be one for the books. Drink to 2030 at least.
Day 2. Cloudy, apple juice. Tannic leach aromas. Very marmalade flavor and aroma.
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7/24/2015 - Ben Christiansen wrote:
Oranges and honey, amphora? Great palate texture.
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12/5/2014 - Ben Christiansen wrote:
Rye toast with an apricot topped by creme fraiche.
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4/9/2014 - nzinkgraf wrote:
For the first time in a little while. Still quite turbid. After about 2 hours open...
At pop and pour there was a rather abrasive first impression. Not hot, but not to fine. 10-20 minutes in the glass really brought this around, right quick. Showing fruit and such.
Now back to 2 hours in, ripe ripe, ripe pear fruit aromas. Candied apple. That's the Cheninality shining through? Verging on apple sauce, but that's just getting presumptuous.
Day 2. Big apple and fruity. Quite decadent, yet drinkable.
Day 3. Wow. Candied apple aroma. Green apple jolly rancher aroma. I do have a soft spot in my heart for that one. Absolutely wild. On the palate a licorice note, that started to emerge is now more front and center. A little menthol/evergreen. Ripe sweet lime on the palate.
Day 7. Aromas are still in the same vicinity as day 3. A heady fruit on the palate. Like the wild in wild strawberry, but apple/raspberry.
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9/20/2012 - Doblk wrote: 88 Points
Beautiful warm deep gold. Apricot, vanilla and floral nose. Rich complex palate. Interesting wine. Not sure what to compare it too - unlike any other chenin blanc I have had.
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7/18/2012 - DaddyNeedsPow wrote:
The end of affairs at the Waterford tasting. Chenin Blanc at both ends of the rainbow. Here, I feel the hand of the winemaker more than I'd like to. That the 2010 Folk Machine CB "skater" that began the tasting was crafted from the same batch of fuit just boggles. With that wine I got a sense that the maker's technique fulfilled the grapes' destinies honestly and deliciously. Here, it seems like the fruit and where it comes from almost doesn't matter. Still pretty tasty, but if anything about sense of place speaks to your soul you might feel as I did the next morning: a little bit dirty.
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7/18/2012 - Ben Christiansen wrote:
Apricot -- coming into its own skin contact thing. Ana says "christmas spice". Richard notes "a layered white wine".
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3/27/2012 - Ben Christiansen wrote:
I have underestimated the 2010 vintage. Or maybe I have underestimated my capacity to understand the 2010 vintage. Thus giving truth to the quote "sooner or later, your favorite wine."
Here, in the glass: that "clay" or skin contact-y nose that I associate with Gravner. The golden peaches of Samarkan. The palate is dense with texture. Rich, almost like it is going to be dusty but then smooth and refined.
Underestimated because now it seems to have put on weight and richness in the mid palate. Not weight, not richness, but a little bit more roundness -- curves to it.
An intellectual wine to be sure, but still delcious.
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3/6/2012 - nzinkgraf wrote:
The color here, relative to the '09 is finally getting into the orange side of gold. Like the sun breaking through some trees in the distance and a romantic tennis match goes on in the foreground. Med(-) copper. Passion fruit, light banana aromas. Black licorice. Palate is out of sight...bright, fine, mineral, the fan of a peacock tail. A crazy experience on the palate. Low tannin, soft smoke, fruits are white and green and fleshy.
DAY 10. Drank only a quarter of the bottle and then let it ride out in the fridge for the last 10 days. palate shows some wild and lean tropical fruit. in the banana realm, but much more enjoyable than my brain normally interprets banana in wine. just a little bit of anise on the palate, but really all about the texture. low tannin, but tannin all the same. looking back at day 1 note, this has perhaps carved a glacial path. (menthol and raspberry??) BUY BUY BUY
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9/6/2011 - Ben Christiansen wrote:
Seemingly never dies. This is day four or five open and it keeps getting better.
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7/19/2011 - Ben Christiansen wrote:
The start of the orange wines. A bit oxydative? A bit warm? Maybe just a touch hard to translate? We shall see where it goes.
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