2016 Skerk Carso Ograde

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 90.8 points

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  8/5/2022 - karl.1480 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Medium pink orange color.
  
  Full throttle right out of the bottle. Deep and complex nose with kind of the same fruit character as a Campari - strawberry, spicy orange peel and faint red cherry. There's also a nice floral lift of rose petals, some spicy resin and medicinal herbs.
  
  Medium bodied with medium(+) acidity. Vibrant and very precise on the palate. The skins contact provides a bit of tannic grip but they are very smooth and refined. Very clean and focused flavors that has the same layer upon layer feel as the nose. Long, intense finish.
  
  It feels like this wine is in a very good phase now but in the beginning of it's preferred window. Open, inviting and complex but not much of tertiary aromas to speak of.

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  3/6/2022 - paintinginacave Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Drank over three days. A slight cloudy, medium amber in the glass. A complex and challenging nose to discern that eventually revealed blood orange, kumquat, raspberry sherbet, a lifted, floral note of orange blossom, a wet river rock minerality, and a passing resemblance to Lucozade Original. So inviting. Supremely bitter - the bitterness really is exceptional - and slightly waxy on the palate with grapefruit pith, melon skin, and bitter orange marmalade. With each passing day the bitterness mellowed, harmony increased, and concentration intensified. The maceration - which takes place in oak - provides a wonderful roundness to the wine. A delicious, highly impressive expression.

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  3/22/2021 - LoireFan wrote:

  Excellent but a little more rambunctiousness than usual.

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  1/14/2021 - LoireFan wrote: 92 Points

  Very pleasing.

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  12/25/2020 - karl.1480 Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Pinot Gris, Vitovska, Malvasia and Sauvignon in equal parts. Fermented on the skins and aged for two years in botti.
  
  Wild, spicy and aromatic nose upon a solid base of ripe peach, wild strawberry, dried apricot, lychee and orange. Some floral notes of rose petals and rose hips comes through as well.
  
  Full bodied with vibrant acidity and very smooth texture. Again a wide spectra of different fruits and spicy citrus peel. Great intensity to the flavors and not a trace of bitter notes. Long and spicy finish.
  
  This was a great bottle in great shape. Drinking very well right now and I will pop my last bottle within a year.

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