Thin, all acid with little fruit or earth to add any counterweight that might help this wine approach a semblance of balance. Day 2: a slight chalkiness on the midpalate and maybe a hint of cocoa nib, but still just the overwhelming sourness and still thinner than yesterday, just all stomach acid with a funky hint of a particularly meaty burp.
A rare miss from Kermit Lynch.
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Like someone shoved an entire damp pine forest into a manure processing plant into a cranberry bog into an afrin bottle, and then messed with the dosing mechanism so the entire contents got sprayed up the nose on the first pull. Too much funk, too much barnyard, too much menthol, too much road tar, too much fruit, too much of everything -- with no finesse or elegance. Stylistically I historically haven't cared for too many California pinots, but this wine is so noxious it's managing the impressive feat of singlehandedly putting me off the entire genre. Honestly reminds me a bit of that Wagner family trash pinot, albeit with a more varietally-appropriate body.
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2016 Azienda Vitivinicola Terre del Vescovo Irpinia Campi Taurasini Re'na vota
3/18/2024 - ekozie Does not like this wine: 82 Points
Thin, all acid with little fruit or earth to add any counterweight that might help this wine approach a semblance of balance. Day 2: a slight chalkiness on the midpalate and maybe a hint of cocoa nib, but still just the overwhelming sourness and still thinner than yesterday, just all stomach acid with a funky hint of a particularly meaty burp.
A rare miss from Kermit Lynch.
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2021 Brunn Grüner Veltliner Ried Stein
3/6/2024 - ekozie wrote: 86 Points
low on acid, unexceptional body. totally dead on day 2. not buying any more.
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2017 Big Basin Vineyards Pinot Noir Lester Family Vineyard
3/3/2024 - ekozie Does not like this wine: 84 Points
Like someone shoved an entire damp pine forest into a manure processing plant into a cranberry bog into an afrin bottle, and then messed with the dosing mechanism so the entire contents got sprayed up the nose on the first pull. Too much funk, too much barnyard, too much menthol, too much road tar, too much fruit, too much of everything -- with no finesse or elegance. Stylistically I historically haven't cared for too many California pinots, but this wine is so noxious it's managing the impressive feat of singlehandedly putting me off the entire genre. Honestly reminds me a bit of that Wagner family trash pinot, albeit with a more varietally-appropriate body.
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