2017 Skerk Carso Ograde

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 92 points

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  7/21/2023 - marco.curzi88@gmail.com wrote: 89 Points

  il tappo si è sgretolato all'apertura. nonostante questo, vino in formissima, colore molto spinto (macerazione e pinot grigio aiutano), naso di agrumi e fiori, albicocche, nespole, fieno e miele. in bocca è ben equilibrato, mi aspettavo una spinta verticale maggiore. buona lunghezza, bottiglia molto interessante.

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  2/1/2020 - bevetroppo wrote:

  I have no vocabulary for this wine-drinking experience. I might have had a shot at the country from the front label, but it would only have been a guess and it wouldn't have been Italy on the first try. I am not sure, but I think Skerk is the producer and Ograde the name of the wine. Thanks to the back label, I see it's a field blend of equal parts vitovska (?!), malvasia, sauvignon and pinot grigio.
  
  And the electric orange color? Like nothing I've ever seen before. I suspect the wine is largely natural but that color looks like it escaped from a lava lamp or like slightly dilute orange Kool Aid.
  
  Since I have no familiarity with vitovska, it's hard to attribute any varietal accuracy to the nose, which definitely smells like something. It would take more patience and interest than I possess to unpack it: candied orange like those jelly things your grandmother used to buy, lots of pith, buzzy pinot grigio notes, I'm sure a better, more motivated taster would find more.
  
  It tastes like a pithy, bitter orange pinot grigio to me, more like a Negroni in color and profile than a typical wine. So despite the fact that I pride myself on being both open-minded and informed about wine in general, I can't say I get this. Or better said, I'm pretty sure I won't get it again. Glad to know that orange wine exists, and equally glad someone else will be drinking it.

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  1/11/2020 - Terjec wrote: 92 Points

  Italiener utenom det vanlige! Dufter av roseblader. Smaker av søte
  bringebær. Flott balansert og svært vellaget vin. Lett rosa på farge. Slike
  smaker gir meg tilbake troen på oransjeviner.

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