So.... it might not have been entirely fair to have this with Asian spiced seared tuna, but I was thinking it would match well. And in competition with a great feinherb riesling so I kind of set it up poorly. The alcohol dominated much more than I have experienced with this one before. It's a fascinating wine for a lot of reasons but didn't work tonight.
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My daughter was making Thai Green Curry Chicken, and my wife uncharacteristically agreed that a white wine would be appropriate but she specified that it not be 'odd,' and I selected this wine, because I thought it would go well with the Thai food, which it did, and because I was eager to drink it regardless, but we were surprised at the dark color of the wine, and my wife decided it was oxidized and pushed it aside, and when I explained that it was supposed to be like this and that it wasn't oxidized but orange, she said that was odd, which was precisely what she had said that she didn't want, so it was clear that I had failed as a husband and as a sommelier, but my guilt didn't last very long because she had made Manhattans before dinner, and so I could turn my attention back to the wine, which, the more I drank, the more I loved, for its structured weightiness and for the complex array of delicious flavors -- pear and strawberry and caramel and something herbal with a long grapefruit-rind aftertaste -- and though the suggestion of oxidation provided some confirmation of my belief that the Vie di Romans wines, like the Verget/Guffens-Heynen wines, have a huge payoff with a very narrow drinking window, I decided that I could increase my total happiness by ensuring that I have a small, steady flow of the Vie di Romans wines (and particularly this bottling) to drink four years after the vintage, harboring the faint, lingering hope that my pleasure will not be completely solitary if I can convince my wife that oddness is a virtue.
I can hardly recommend this wine strongly enough, even though I am not altogether willing to argue that it is a great wine. But it is a fascinating and compelling wine, and for this wine to be made from pinot grigio is an accomplishment not far removed from the magical manufacture of Chateau Rayas from grenache. It is deep and complex, starting with high acidity, a savory quality, and a suggestion of salty strawberries, and finishing with a powerful flavor of caramelized pears. It ends in a different place from where it starts, but it is delicious at the beginning and differently delicious at the end. I don't see any need to wait longer to drink it.
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Wow, super gouteux et savoureux! De belles saveurs d'amandes, de poires et d'agrumes. Assez dense et presque gras. Long et vraiment satisfaisant. Excellent.
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Superb, unexpected, defying white, blush. Just lovely fruit, apricot, red grapefruit, juicy with excellent acidity and lightness. And there is that hint of almond or marzipan. Gorgeous nose and as others note long finish. One comp that comes to mind is a Bea Trebbiano, but this is a more subtle touch, grace on the palate with breath of richness. Qpr is tops.
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Really a stunning, characterful Pinot Grigio. Broad, full-bodied and powerful with apricots and grapefruit, yet with freshness and just so much spice. Amazing black pepper note here. Great texture with some tannins providing a lasting mouthfeel. Outstanding length, this lasts minutes. Don't know where this is going with time, but drinking perfectly at the moment. 18/20
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Bronze/peach colour. Aroma of almond pastries and musk. Lovely dry, complex flavours of plums and gooseberry, but the finish is somehow slightly off-dry. Delicious!
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The color is slightly pink. The wine has sweet red berries, peach, and other citrus notes. More full bodied than any Pinot Grigio I have recently had. It is fresh fruit with a persistent fruit forward character and structure to match. Not your daddy's Pinot Grigio !!! A wonderful wine in this grape.
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Came across this bottle in a very well equipped wine cellar in Milan. I had one bottle previously, but I had it during dinner with colleagues which didn’t really allow the appreciation of this very special Pinot Grigio. The pink orange color alone makes it special, but then the fun only starts: oxidative, honey, sweet pink grapefruit, spices, apricot, a salty note. Very fresh, medium+ acidity with a long finish. Definitely a rebuy
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What a wild Pinot Grigio! Unexpected orange color. Nose that is half Riesling, half oxidated who knows what. Delightful edge of raspberry to it all. It’s like a Ramato but it is not rose in attitude , more like a cross between regular Pinot Grigio , rose, and an Alsace VT (although it has only a touch of the exoticism of a real VT). Something that seems vaguely familiar but totally out of the blue. Wow. A thrill! Score: 93. Relative to expectations: +++
This was just so totally unexpected from a pinot grigio! It was wonderfully described in previous notes. Great wine, and even better for the price. Just get some!
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I’m a yearly half case regular of this wine. This version is big flavors of apricot, and fig, and honey, and some late wet stone like ending. This is very flavorful wine that is complex enough to roll with an array of different food choices. Initially to mind, I would do any type of wood fired oysters, a delicate sole, or some oven roasted pork chops. Big wine, big score.
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Wow! Sun is just headed down and struck the glass—incredible mix of copper and gold with long sparkling legs, gentle enticing nose of apricots figs and spice, huge mouthfeel, the word thin has left the state, more like Rubenesque and equally seductive, finish is gentle, gorgeous and very long, just opened and can’t wait to see it really strut its stuff
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This is an exceptional pinot grigio that has weight, extraction and a dynamic flavor profile. You immediately notice this wine is unique by its color: a fallow salmon. On the palate honeysuckle bursts to the point where you fear this is going to be overly sweet, but the wine immediately fades on the mid-palate and returns to something lean and more typical of pinot grigio. Then, the flavors flare again and you have a lingering finish of white fruit, wet rocks and flinty minerality. The wine pairs effortlessly with all foods we've tried it with.
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This was a great wine and a fantastic value. As others have noted it’s salmon colored because of some skin contact. The nose is pungent with peach, lemon, lime and apple. There’s some salinity lurking behind the fruit as well. The palate matches it, but I would note that the fruit is not ripe (imagine the tartness of a hard peach). It ends with almond skin. I might rate it even higher if the alcohol were a little subtler.
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This is a fascinating wine, made in a traditional skin-contact style called "ramato." It has a lovely salmon-infused copper color. It has soft floral and strawberry aromas above a core of lees, mandarin orange, and mineral salts. The wine is somehow decadent yet light.
Outstanding winemaking!
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1/19/2024 - NCWW Likes this wine:
So.... it might not have been entirely fair to have this with Asian spiced seared tuna, but I was thinking it would match well. And in competition with a great feinherb riesling so I kind of set it up poorly. The alcohol dominated much more than I have experienced with this one before. It's a fascinating wine for a lot of reasons but didn't work tonight.
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1/6/2024 - talbot61 Likes this wine: 92 Points
My daughter was making Thai Green Curry Chicken, and my wife uncharacteristically agreed that a white wine would be appropriate but she specified that it not be 'odd,' and I selected this wine, because I thought it would go well with the Thai food, which it did, and because I was eager to drink it regardless, but we were surprised at the dark color of the wine, and my wife decided it was oxidized and pushed it aside, and when I explained that it was supposed to be like this and that it wasn't oxidized but orange, she said that was odd, which was precisely what she had said that she didn't want, so it was clear that I had failed as a husband and as a sommelier, but my guilt didn't last very long because she had made Manhattans before dinner, and so I could turn my attention back to the wine, which, the more I drank, the more I loved, for its structured weightiness and for the complex array of delicious flavors -- pear and strawberry and caramel and something herbal with a long grapefruit-rind aftertaste -- and though the suggestion of oxidation provided some confirmation of my belief that the Vie di Romans wines, like the Verget/Guffens-Heynen wines, have a huge payoff with a very narrow drinking window, I decided that I could increase my total happiness by ensuring that I have a small, steady flow of the Vie di Romans wines (and particularly this bottling) to drink four years after the vintage, harboring the faint, lingering hope that my pleasure will not be completely solitary if I can convince my wife that oddness is a virtue.
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2/18/2023 - NickA wrote: flawed
I'm going to say this was corked, as it seemed astringent and slightly cardboardy. A big shame, the 2017 is fantastic. One other bottle of the '18...
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10/1/2022 - talbot61 Likes this wine: 94 Points
I can hardly recommend this wine strongly enough, even though I am not altogether willing to argue that it is a great wine. But it is a fascinating and compelling wine, and for this wine to be made from pinot grigio is an accomplishment not far removed from the magical manufacture of Chateau Rayas from grenache. It is deep and complex, starting with high acidity, a savory quality, and a suggestion of salty strawberries, and finishing with a powerful flavor of caramelized pears. It ends in a different place from where it starts, but it is delicious at the beginning and differently delicious at the end. I don't see any need to wait longer to drink it.
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5/23/2022 - maxima wrote: 90 Points
Wow, super gouteux et savoureux!
De belles saveurs d'amandes, de poires et
d'agrumes. Assez dense et presque gras.
Long et vraiment satisfaisant.
Excellent.
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4/24/2022 - wayfarer Likes this wine: 93 Points
Superb, unexpected, defying white, blush. Just lovely fruit, apricot, red grapefruit, juicy with excellent acidity and lightness. And there is that hint of almond or marzipan. Gorgeous nose and as others note long finish. One comp that comes to mind is a Bea Trebbiano, but this is a more subtle touch, grace on the palate with breath of richness. Qpr is tops.
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1/16/2022 - ploher wrote:
Really a stunning, characterful Pinot Grigio. Broad, full-bodied and powerful with apricots and grapefruit, yet with freshness and just so much spice. Amazing black pepper note here. Great texture with some tannins providing a lasting mouthfeel. Outstanding length, this lasts minutes. Don't know where this is going with time, but drinking perfectly at the moment. 18/20
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10/28/2021 - SixHedgehogs Likes this wine: 92 Points
Bronze/peach colour. Aroma of almond pastries and musk. Lovely dry, complex flavours of plums and gooseberry, but the finish is somehow slightly off-dry. Delicious!
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9/24/2021 - tomoem Likes this wine: 93 Points
Opened another and I must say ..... a very desirable modern white wine. How is this a Pinot Grigio ? What am I missing.
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9/10/2021 - tomoem Likes this wine: 93 Points
CBCC fall wine tasting 2021
The color is slightly pink. The wine has sweet red berries, peach, and other citrus notes. More full bodied than any Pinot Grigio I have recently had. It is fresh fruit with a persistent fruit forward character and structure to match. Not your daddy's Pinot Grigio !!! A wonderful wine in this grape.
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8/6/2021 - ThijsV Likes this wine: 92 Points
Came across this bottle in a very well equipped wine cellar in Milan. I had one bottle previously, but I had it during dinner with colleagues which didn’t really allow the appreciation of this very special Pinot Grigio. The pink orange color alone makes it special, but then the fun only starts: oxidative, honey, sweet pink grapefruit, spices, apricot, a salty note. Very fresh, medium+ acidity with a long finish.
Definitely a rebuy
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8/1/2021 - JJYoyo Likes this wine: 93 Points
What a wild Pinot Grigio! Unexpected orange color. Nose that is half Riesling, half oxidated who knows what. Delightful edge of raspberry to it all. It’s like a Ramato but it is not rose in attitude , more like a cross between regular Pinot Grigio , rose, and an Alsace VT (although it has only a touch of the exoticism of a real VT). Something that seems vaguely familiar but totally out of the blue. Wow. A thrill!
Score: 93. Relative to expectations: +++
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7/4/2021 - argilog Likes this wine: 94 Points
This was just so totally unexpected from a pinot grigio! It was wonderfully described in previous notes. Great wine, and even better for the price. Just get some!
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6/18/2021 - ThijsV wrote:
Vineum (Vineum, Rotterdam): No tasting notes taken during dinner. Orange in color. slightly oxidative, pink grapefruit, tangerine.
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5/28/2021 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 93 Points
A private lunch (Restaurant Fa. Peekelharing, Amsterdam, NL): Pale orange golden colour; blood orange and spicy vanilla, richly textured, fresh and mineral core, excellent resonance and length. Extra point for the undisputable wow-factor.
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5/16/2021 - CCestaro wrote: 93 Points
I’m a yearly half case regular of this wine. This version is big flavors of apricot, and fig, and honey, and some late wet stone like ending. This is very flavorful wine that is complex enough to roll with an array of different food choices. Initially to mind, I would do any type of wood fired oysters, a delicate sole, or some oven roasted pork chops. Big wine, big score.
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5/14/2021 - EllisWine Likes this wine: 95 Points
Wow! Sun is just headed down and struck the glass—incredible mix of copper and gold with long sparkling legs, gentle enticing nose of apricots figs and spice, huge mouthfeel, the word thin has left the state, more like Rubenesque and equally seductive, finish is gentle, gorgeous and very long, just opened and can’t wait to see it really strut its stuff
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5/7/2021 - caesar77 Likes this wine: 92 Points
This is an exceptional pinot grigio that has weight, extraction and a dynamic flavor profile. You immediately notice this wine is unique by its color: a fallow salmon. On the palate honeysuckle bursts to the point where you fear this is going to be overly sweet, but the wine immediately fades on the mid-palate and returns to something lean and more typical of pinot grigio. Then, the flavors flare again and you have a lingering finish of white fruit, wet rocks and flinty minerality. The wine pairs effortlessly with all foods we've tried it with.
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4/18/2021 - whitmanlholt Likes this wine:
No formal score, but this is an interesting, unique wine. It’s well done.
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4/9/2021 - Oberunter-5 Likes this wine: 93 Points
This was a great wine and a fantastic value. As others have noted it’s salmon colored because of some skin contact. The nose is pungent with peach, lemon, lime and apple. There’s some salinity lurking behind the fruit as well. The palate matches it, but I would note that the fruit is not ripe (imagine the tartness of a hard peach). It ends with almond skin. I might rate it even higher if the alcohol were a little subtler.
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1/30/2021 - Oeie Likes this wine: 90 Points
Appearance: White, very light orange, almost rose (Apparently it’s ’ramato style’)
Nose: quite sweet, slight hint of peach, yuzu
Palate
Slight sweetness, quite acidic, medium body, alcohol 14% abv,
Flavour: peach, lemon, vanilla
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1/5/2021 - rmalloy Likes this wine: 93 Points
This is a fascinating wine, made in a traditional skin-contact style called "ramato." It has a lovely salmon-infused copper color. It has soft floral and strawberry aromas above a core of lees, mandarin orange, and mineral salts. The wine is somehow decadent yet light.
Outstanding winemaking!
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10/18/2020 - Aneuman53 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Almost salmon in color. Most interesting, full bodied Pinot Grigio I’ve tasted.
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