2018 Dirty and Rowdy Sémillon

Community Tasting Notes (18) Avg Score: 90.3 points

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  11/30/2023 - AlphaMikeFoxtrot Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Not as sharp as Hunter...not as chubby as Bordeaux. Napa Sémillon should really be more popular. This is in a sweet spot right now aged 5.
  
  Pours a pretty deep yellow. There is some skin contact on this wine but not nearly enough to push it into the orange/amber category. Fresh cotton, bee pollen (not sweet enough to be honey and we all know there is no such thing as "dry honey" despite people using it as a tasting note), wet stone, freesia and rose petals on the nose. The palate adds some vegetal flavors as well as anise and fennel. More floral than fruity. Finishes with steel/metal. Texturally sharp and tense - it USED to be more acidic; but even though the acid is lower now, it retains the sharpness. Intensity of both flavors and aromas is medium +.
  
  Medium + body with medium acid and a nice 30 second or so long finish. Low alcohol! Definitely drink this now.

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  1/30/2023 - grafstrb wrote:

  -- popped and poured --
  -- tasted non-blind over a couple days --
  
  NOSE: very light; not much going on.
  
  BODY: moderately hazy orange-pale yellow color; light bodied.
  
  TASTE: lightly-flavored; a touch tart; tastes like a low-alc. fruity/slightly tart wild ale, but no mouse, brett, or funk. 11% alc. is hidden. No meaningful movement since my previous bottle in 2019. I continue to be baffled by this wine, which smells and tastes of very little.

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  10/12/2022 - Shane B Does not like this wine: 85 Points

  Will try again tomorrow to see if this opens up into something more interesting. So far it is very limited in depth. Very orange and natural wine in style, but lacking in the depth of others of that style I've had recently including Enderle & Moll and Fabio Gea that were not shy at PnP. Unique and interesting variation on a typical semillon in that it is slightly sour and tannic but either too closed or too shallow...

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  9/14/2022 - HandmadeHomemade wrote:

  Showing a bit more creaminess woth some yeasty autolytic flavors, light in body amd on the flavor- needs food. More gold in color for this bottle

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  2/15/2022 - HandmadeHomemade wrote:

  Ambivalent to this- great with oysters on the half shell, but alone it's really watery and, well- boring. The brininess of the oysters really brings out the mineral and citrus in the wine. Med body, minimal acid- textural and lithe. It's got some of the goods, just not the whole package, but man if it did...

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