2020 Matassa Brutal Rouge

Community Tasting Notes (5) Median Score: 89 points

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  11/25/2023 - echobogus Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Pretty floral and peachy nose. One note was raspberry Jamba Juice and I see it. Quick to mouse.

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  8/6/2023 - grapenomad wrote: 92 Points

  Tom Lubbe came up with one of the most brilliant ideas in the wine world - blending Syrah with the aromatic Muscat to get a silky-smooth fruit basket of a wine. Sleek & easy like a summer's day.

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  6/2/2022 - Realityrichard Does not like this wine: 81 Points

  Zu Beginn ein stechender Gestank nach Kotze und ein sehr bitterer, pelziger Einstieg. Wenn der erste Schock erstmal verdaut ist, lässt sich ein bisschen Blaubeere und Himbeere wahrnehmen. Die Safitgkeit vermisse ich aber. Wie auch bei den Olla Rouges gilt: unbedingt ein paar Stunden vorher öffnen und atmen lassen. Dieser hier hat mich leider gar nicht überzeugt.

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  3/27/2022 - Putnam Weekley wrote: 92 Points

  Richly scented. Violets, clove, musk, morello cherries. 24 hours open has thoroughly domesticated it, though it was hardly disruptive in the first place. Suave, linear contours of structure rely more on tannin than on acidity. Tissue-thin layers of peach skin, cool stone, and poppy seed make the skeleton. A dry projection of marmalade and nettle sting animate the frame. The finish is a careless fruit basket wash, and residue, elastic, muscular acidity—limber. The wash dries to paper while the acidity carries on with its action. There's a sleek, easygoing Merlot vibe here, undemanding, yet still rewarding to cravings for insight. I eagerly drank it to the last drop on a sunny Sunday evening in spring. I expect these vines will offer even more substance over the coming decade. They will age. They will be challenged and nourished by new ideas. This wine is a professional performance, a unique imprint of an historical transition.

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  9/25/2021 - acyso wrote: 80 Points

  "This is a wine I imagine people make in prison" (Chicago, IL): Yikes. Weird and herbal, I think the best description of this might be a muscat, but red. Which is, really, something that no one needs to ask for. I'll admit, this wine isn't unpleasant if you can get through the honeyed, slightly foxy, herbal, and floral aromas, and the bitter, amaro-like palate. I don't hate this because it doesn't taste like the contents of a biodynamic cesspool, but this really doesn't taste particularly like wine either.

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