2015 Ščurek Sauvignon

Community Tasting Notes (1) Avg Score: 87 points

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  3/22/2018 - forceberry wrote: 87 Points

  Macerated for 8 days with the skins. Aged for 10 months in oak. 13% alcohol. Tasted blind.
  
  Concentrated and rather intense honey yellow color. Odd, stuffy and overall rather weird nose with aromas off grassy character, some herbal lager beer notes, a little bit of waxy character and a hint of perfumed floral tones. The wine is full-bodied, somewhat wild and a bit weird on the palate with pronounced stony - even somewhat tingly - minerality along with flavors of citrus fruits, some grassy tones, a little bit of quinine bitterness, a hint of apple-driven white fruit and a touch of lager beer. Overall the wine comes across pretty structured with its high acidity, but even though this is technically an orange wine, there are no tannins to speak of. The finish is very mineral and somewhat bitter with complex and a bit wild flavors of citrus fruits, some herbal alger character, a little bit of apple peel bitterness and a hint of stony minerality.
  
  A rather odd and atypical, yet surprisingly enjoyable skin-contact white. The wine wasn't that obviously a Sauvignon Blanc, but it was impossible to come up with any other wine style it could've been. Very distinctive with its odd, lager beer-kind of herbal aroma. Not a wine you fall in love with immediately, but it certainly has its own charms. An interesting odd bird.

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