2015 Cascina Degli Ulivi Semplicemente Vino Bellotti Rosso

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 78 points

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  3/22/2020 - cos65 Does not like this wine:

  Served blind
  Hard to place
  Deep purple
  Funky mousy nose
  Juicy berry, off dry, comes off a bit heavy/cloying almost
  natural in not a great way.
  Serve ice cold if you have too.
  Not recommended and NFS

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  2/17/2019 - agodea wrote: 78 Points

  Floral nose, slight effervescence, heavy. Not my favorite.

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  5/27/2018 - bevetroppo wrote:

  I recently read a long serious article about "mousiness," a relatively new and still not fully explained flaw primarily affecting natural wines. It's one of those things you probably don't want to think too hard about because even being aware of it may predispose you towards thinking it's lurking retronasally in every natural wine you try. I swear I noticed it recently for the first time in a bottle of Montesecondo Rosso. Now, what I once may have thought as a bretty barnyard quality I could often enjoy, has been "spoiled" by this weird taint that creeps up on the finish and leaves a decidedly unattractive caged mouse thing as a lingering impression.
  
  This might be the most aggressively labeled natural wine I've ever seen, pronouncing itself as "simply wine," biodynamically farmed with nothing added. In fact, it's so aggressive in asserting its iconoclastic approach that it's almost impossible to figure out where it's from in Italy and what's in it. I had to get several pages deep in a search to determine that it's from Piedmont and it's a blend of barbera and dolcetto or maybe bonarda. There's some sweet appealing berry fruit on the nose, with for the most part an almost attractive feral (bretty) barnyard backstop that smells faintly of bandaids. The fruit shines on the palate, ripe red berries, but then comes that funky finish that only Topo Gigio could love. Also, while I doubt it contributes to anything good or bad, it's bottled under a crown cap, ie like a beer bottle.
  
  The admittedly skimpy literature on mousiness suggests it may subside with air. I'll come back and update this note if I experience it as such, assuming I keep it around long enough to find out.
  
  I would have been much happier in my ignorance, but now I have a new fault to deal with and since I'm still more or less a rookie on this one, I'm not going to declare it flawed but I'm very close to doing so.

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