"Día de los Daddys" (Chicago, IL): Apparently this needed a good shake to get rid of a bunch of dissolved fizz. Bitter, herbal, and oily, with plenty of weird oxidative funky notes that, well, just don't taste clean. I can understand why there is interest in this wine, but I'm definitely not the target market.
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Drunk over family lunch, no TN. Clean nose, some signs of evolution but moderate and adding complexity. Lovely palate, this is a serious wine, but drinks very well.
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hour plus decant, darker colored with the traditional fizz, this started rather slowly but eventually reached a great spot of apricot/orange flavors mostly and just the perfect amount of acid to keep everything in balance. This is not your normal flavors of wine but very unique. Not the same as Valentini but so good.
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a couple hrs open then decant as there is so much fizz. Tasting is another thing altogether, more of an orange rind flavor with such excellent texture in the mouth, great depth of fruit and acid balance, the spritz in the mouith adds another point of interest. Fun and different experience and so together. Good to drink now.
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Sunday wines and not wines (Chicago, IL): Needed a serious shake to get rid of all that fizz. This is a really wooly and wild bottle; the nose shows far too much animale and not enough of anything else. The palate is a bit better, with some clean acids, but there's still too much funky animale stuff going on here. I don't think I've ever really liked the Pepe wines; this is no exception.
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6/19/2022 - acyso wrote: 83 Points
"Día de los Daddys" (Chicago, IL): Apparently this needed a good shake to get rid of a bunch of dissolved fizz. Bitter, herbal, and oily, with plenty of weird oxidative funky notes that, well, just don't taste clean. I can understand why there is interest in this wine, but I'm definitely not the target market.
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4/18/2021 - gilrbo Likes this wine:
Drunk over family lunch, no TN.
Clean nose, some signs of evolution but moderate and adding complexity. Lovely palate, this is a serious wine, but drinks very well.
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12/9/2020 - Louvin wrote: 93 Points
hour plus decant, darker colored with the traditional fizz, this started rather slowly but eventually reached a great spot of apricot/orange flavors mostly and just the perfect amount of acid to keep everything in balance. This is not your normal flavors of wine but very unique. Not the same as Valentini but so good.
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10/7/2020 - Louvin Likes this wine: 93 Points
a couple hrs open then decant as there is so much fizz. Tasting is another thing altogether, more of an orange rind flavor with such excellent texture in the mouth, great depth of fruit and acid balance, the spritz in the mouith adds another point of interest. Fun and different experience and so together. Good to drink now.
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9/1/2019 - acyso wrote: 85 Points
Sunday wines and not wines (Chicago, IL): Needed a serious shake to get rid of all that fizz. This is a really wooly and wild bottle; the nose shows far too much animale and not enough of anything else. The palate is a bit better, with some clean acids, but there's still too much funky animale stuff going on here. I don't think I've ever really liked the Pepe wines; this is no exception.
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