2008 Enrico Serafino Alta Langa

Community Tasting Notes (1) Avg Score: 78 points

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  5/7/2016 - forceberry wrote: 78 Points

  Pale green color. Slightly stuffy aroma at first with aromas of dust, wool, some brown apple and a hint of cardboard. However, the nose cleans up with air, starting to express cleaner aromas of ripe apple, some nougat and somewhat green, leafy hints. The wine feels really light and fresh on the palate, emphasized by its fine, yet pretty prickly and persistent mousse. There are clean, quite steely flavors of green apples, stony minerality, a little pithy grapefruit and somewhat green hints of birch leaves. Very high in acidity. The finish is crisp, steely and medium in length with pronounced flavors of green apples, apple peel and some leafy greenness with restrained autolytic nuances of toast and cookie dough.
  
  Although Alta Langas should be really fine and impressive sparkling wines, this wine felt it was made from unripe grapes and lacking in balance and focus. The pieces were sort of there, but not together in any way. In its best moments this wine was really nice, but due to its odd, stuffy nose and green flavors it didn't really impress. It was really hard to say whether this was an off bottle or if the style just is like this. I will consider this wine unfaulty, but I would like to retaste this wine in the future just to see whether I was wrong. At approx. 20€ this wine shows pretty poor value.

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