2019 La Miraja Grignolino d'Asti

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 88.7 points

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  12/14/2021 - dougsmith Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Light ruby color. Red berries and hay on the nose. Friendly wine, reserved and subtle red berry flavors, well balanced and juicy.

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  7/11/2021 - afields wrote:

  Very light in body and color—equivalent to a rosé—but with M+ to high acidity and the grippy (M) tannins of a fairly serious red. Not fruit forward, there’s light cherry-strawberry but this is more about savory leather, tea, poppy seed, dried pink flowers.
  
  This is a ‘shallow’ sort of wine that’s meant to be drunk young and with food, but it’s not glou glou. The level of tannin and acid might tempt some to give this a few years but I don’t think it will improve; it’s just the sort of wine you have to enjoy grippy young tannins to like. Personally I love the style of very gentle extraction with serious structure.
  
  This was good with buttery, green oniony blueberry risotto but I think it would do well with salty-fatty meat (say pork) too if you eat meat. Works well with a slight chill too, and could sub in for a rosé if you want something punchier in the summer.
  
  At $18 I’d happily buy this again. I just bought the Freisa from the same producer and I’m excited to try it.
  
  6.2-6.3/10

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  1/13/2021 - virginiacross Likes this wine: 91 Points

  I absolutely love this wine, although I think it's not for everyone. It's very light in color, like a pale garnet red. Black tea notes really hit you, along with strawberries and dried flowers. Acidity is super high. It's just an intriguing wine and one I will drink over and over.

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  7/22/2020 - Ben Christiansen wrote:

  Tasty fresh grignolino. Tastes like seeds in a light bodied format.

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  7/12/2020 - levelsea Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Strawberries. Drier. Very tasty and drinkeable.

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