Dinner with Ata Rangi and Escarpment winemakers: Decanted 5-6 hours before dinner. A nose of dark cherries, blackberries, tar and dark soil, with an off putting burnt toast element. These were these flavours on palate and also menthol but the fruit was overtaken by the oak (the taste reminding me of the smell of my Grandmother's mahogany mantlepiece). No one liked the Scavino very much and there was quite a lot of the bottle left ... The next evening the charred firewood aspect was even more prominent and the finish quite bitter. I was not sure if the wine would come around with time or was already past its best.
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Visited estate last June and I was not impressed by the aggressive oak treatment here. This was a chance to see if the oak ultimately integrates; based on this one bottle, the answer is no. This is an oak monster. Not my style.
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1/4/2019 - edge Likes this wine: 94 Points
Another great bottle of Scavino. I could easily misjudge this for an Annunziata. Still drinking well.
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8/16/2017 - hargy Likes this wine: 90 Points
dense and perhaps lacking in fruit with the tannins still there - quite a delicious and uncomplicated wine
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12/28/2015 - HowardNZ Does not like this wine:
Dinner with Ata Rangi and Escarpment winemakers: Decanted 5-6 hours before dinner. A nose of dark cherries, blackberries, tar and dark soil, with an off putting burnt toast element. These were these flavours on palate and also menthol but the fruit was overtaken by the oak (the taste reminding me of the smell of my Grandmother's mahogany mantlepiece). No one liked the Scavino very much and there was quite a lot of the bottle left ... The next evening the charred firewood aspect was even more prominent and the finish quite bitter. I was not sure if the wine would come around with time or was already past its best.
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10/22/2015 - thierrynz Does not like this wine:
Visited estate last June and I was not impressed by the aggressive oak treatment here. This was a chance to see if the oak ultimately integrates; based on this one bottle, the answer is no. This is an oak monster. Not my style.
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2/5/2015 - edge Likes this wine: 95 Points
Wow, what a nose, violets and leather. Masculine wine that just kept going. WOTN and there were some heavy hitters in the lineup.
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