Thick bananasmoothie purple-orange-pink. Obviously little filtering, and opposite amounts of sediment. Smelled like dried sour cherries with a smokey and spicy touch, added chalk and sour beer tartness. This vintage still drank very well. Taste was again prominently sour, much like well crafted sour beers including their pleasant and often tea-like bitterness. Tart, fruity, strange, orange-natural, fun and very likeable Pheasant's Tears style Georgian. An acquired taste, of course, but by no means among the most intense experiences thereof.
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Lively bubbles. Nose of champagne and whisky sour. Taste rich and delicate, in particular for a 3 y.o. Fairly generic taste profile, but good and easy to drink. Will buy again if price is right.
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Pale with golden tint. Slightly rustique nose of spiced soda, lees/cask and more fruit garden than bakery. Perhaps even some ginger, fennel and brandy. Taste is quite voluptuous verging on associations to being constructed. Richer than the mouthfeel and aftertaste justifies. Fun stuff, but the first glass was definitely better than the second one.
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2019 Pheasant's Tears Poliphonia
1/19/2024 - dearth wrote: 87 Points
Thick bananasmoothie purple-orange-pink. Obviously little filtering, and opposite amounts of sediment. Smelled like dried sour cherries with a smokey and spicy touch, added chalk and sour beer tartness. This vintage still drank very well. Taste was again prominently sour, much like well crafted sour beers including their pleasant and often tea-like bitterness. Tart, fruity, strange, orange-natural, fun and very likeable Pheasant's Tears style Georgian. An acquired taste, of course, but by no means among the most intense experiences thereof.
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2020 Bonnet-Ponson Champagne Cuvée Perpétuelle Extra Brut
1/14/2024 - dearth wrote: 88 Points
Lively bubbles. Nose of champagne and whisky sour. Taste rich and delicate, in particular for a 3 y.o.
Fairly generic taste profile, but good and easy to drink. Will buy again if price is right.
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NV Domaine Nowack Champagne Assemblage S. A. Extra Brut
1/14/2024 - dearth wrote: 87 Points
Pale with golden tint. Slightly rustique nose of spiced soda, lees/cask and more fruit garden than bakery. Perhaps even some ginger, fennel and brandy. Taste is quite voluptuous verging on associations to being constructed. Richer than the mouthfeel and aftertaste justifies. Fun stuff, but the first glass was definitely better than the second one.
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