2022 Tzum Eventyr "Spring Ephemeral"

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 69.5 points

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  4/27/2024 - stanqwash Likes this wine: 89 Points

  I just got a Hiyu club shipment and was reviewing my inventory. Saw the 50-point review for this and lol’ed. Had to see if it was true.
  
  Nose is typical natty wine — that sort of funky malic acid brett nose, with some ethanol. My wife calls it cat pee. I kind of like it. No sulfuric compounds detected, though.
  
  Palate had some fun cantaloupe and cotton candy notes. Maybe those mini oranges my kids eat. Bit of bitterness on the back. But actually quite lovely. Feels like it needs another year to marry, but still a fun bottle.
  
  I always think about cancelling my membership, but I’ve had pinots that are simply ethereal, and the nattier wines are a fun break. So I’m not out yet!

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  8/30/2023 - Jack Cranley Does not like this wine: 50 Points

  This has to be the most foul and disgusting wine I have ever encountered. The nose is a veritable cornucopia of mercaptans. The three friends I was with and I each had one word that we blurted out to describe what we were smelling. The words were
  
  Sewage
  Rot
  Death
  Eggs
  
  This whole natural wine movement has just gone too far. This is not low intervention wine. This is sheer neglect.
  
  Only one of the four of us had the guts to even put this in their mouth. I was not one of them. It smelled so foul that it literally felt intuitively dangerous to consume. The one who decided to brave it and take one for the team - their face turned sour immediately and they spit the wine out and proclaimed it to be absolutely disgusting. Well, no surprise there.
  
  Just the intrinsic nature of this wine was enough to be pretty upset, but the obscene price tag ($75) was the salt in the wound that really capped off this most unfortunate encounter. It literally made me feel duped. I feel like I have been taken for a ride. The disconnect between the quality and the price tag is so absurd that I almost feel like I must be a subject of a cruel social experiment. Experiencing wine is well known for triggering a range of emotions but "anger" is not typically considered one such emotion. But here we are.
  
  This wine frankly erodes my trust for the entire brand. If they're willing to slap a label on this and a $75 price tag, that speaks volumes to the integrity of the project in general.
  
  I'm out.

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  8/12/2023 - 5laton wrote:

  Mostly albariño, if I heard correctly. This had a very farty nose that was tough to get past, but the palate was more interesting with a lovely texture. Would like to have had more time with it to see if the stink blew off.

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