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Red

2022 Strekov 1075 Bob

Južnoslovenská Red Blend more

4/30/2024 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 91 points

Initial contact produces sensations of finely finished black grape slurry. It's tannic. Nothing sticky. Then gradually as it warms, various temperamental blooms of flavor action occur, starting with iodine/bouillon, then cave stone. Before long, a campaign of black raspberry acidity advances into focus. The event follows a pulsing artery of plain blue fruit sugar, though the wine is dry (and barely salted.) Surrounding this I find a busy environment of aromatic leaf (sage, yerba buena, eucalyptus,) seed (poppy, maraschino, caraway,) and mineral (I'm not a geologist.)

I'll pencil this in as a menu substitution for the finest foot-trod Lambrusco. If I had salumi in the house I would test it. "alk. 12.5%." This is my first drink of this Bob cuvée. Zsolt Sütó's Fred series comes to mind—by way of comparison—more than the liter of El Mismo Pais that preceded it more immediately. Alibernet vs. Blauer Port-you-geezer.

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White

2021 Strekov 1075 Veltlin

Južnoslovenská Grüner Veltliner more

3/24/2024 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 95 points

Veltliner Wende (Detroit): Look.
Zsolt Sütó farms the Hermitage of Veltliner.
Modulating, attenuating, accelerating in scent. Walnutshell bottarga. Vengeful acidity. Coherence like a firehose of slackjaw. How can you put words to a thing like this?! It's escape velocity payload botanical vengeance. And it tastes pretty.
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24 hours later. Incrementally more clarity of flavor and honed texture. This has none of the morphological features of Viognier or Savagnin, but they're pals.

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NV Strekov 1075 Little Fred X.

Južnoslovenská Red Blend more

1/20/2024 - Henman Likes this wine: 88 points

From a 375ml bottle with metal capsule. On the nose ripe blackberries. Medium bodied, smooth and supple, showing ripe blackberries and some black currant with a bit of effervescence, smooth and gentle tannins and good acidity. A very nice red natty wine.

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Red

NV Strekov 1075 Fred #5

Južnoslovenská Red Blend more

2/6/2021 - lovanc@outlook.com wrote: NR

Delicious wine. High acid make the dark fruit flavors come across as much lighter than expected. First thought was that this would be a perfect wine slightly chilled on a beach.

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White

2021 Strekov 1075 Rizling

Južnoslovenská Rizling Vlašský, Welschriesling more

11/17/2023 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 94 points

barely hazy; salted sativa liquor; it opens gradually, filling in sweet floral sensations, along with lemon drop, gripping stone grit, sour cherry liqueur, and broken clamshells. A streak of bitter, sappy calcium teases another drink on the finish. A little more gastric and allium than the previous bottle, which came from a different case, in a different united state.
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aeration is persuasive; six hours later, now drinking the latter half of the bottle; I'm finding lunging sensations of Convallaria majalis and lilac; destructive disruption of scented peaches; and brassy cask cure that reminds me of pierre overnoy. This is a sunny, sour drink, and startling in its manifest of deep plumbing. Pairing it with coppa and local cheddar is a good idea.

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Red

NV Strekov 1075 Fred #9

Južnoslovenská Red Blend more

11/15/2023 - spidersva Likes this wine: 90 points

I really liked it. Has that little carbonation-y taste it seems so many of the eastern Europe reds have. Not for all, but fun to me. Would be great with a little chill on it.

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2022 Strekov 1075 Bob

Južnoslovenská Red Blend more

11/13/2023 - kapitanzolw Likes this wine: 88 points

Blueberries abundance with a hint of violets. A decent bit of funk thrown into the mix. Very good when drank on the first day, whatever is left for the day after loses its brilliance quite quickly.

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NV Strekov 1075 Fred #9

Južnoslovenská Red Blend more

10/6/2023 - Fractalage Likes this wine: NR

Been looking forward to this bottle for three months now, as in July I stopped by Flatiron SF to pick up some of my cases.

Fresh cassis with a core of earthen rotten straw that had been sitting in a bucket of ripe mulberry, blackberry, and elderberry juice.
As it opened up most of that funk blew off. There was a fantastic freshness of rich berry that I absolutely loved. This is case worthy. Loved the bottle cap, as who needs a cork, really.

Palate was very clean and fresh, lots of dense earthen fruit that tasted incredible and natural. It was dense and light at the same time, great natural acid, crazy black purple color that reminded me of dye or food coloring. Those anthocyanins are soooo healthful. Dark color such as this is your colon's best friend. This stuff fights cancer. Fred #9 should be labeled as "Fred is cancer free because he drinks this". Where are my double-blind peer reviewed studies!?

Why can't everyone make wine like this?
That's the magic question. Why?
This needs to be studied.
Screw Bordeaux, eff Burgundy, while this is here to be had! (common Bordeaux and Burgundy lovers, buy a bottle of this and dispute my claim.)

Flatiron SF is such a fun store. A kid in a candy shop it is for me. I had to delve deep into my wine budget to come out of there with a case of Fumin and two more cases of one-offs to taste. Blessed to have such a great wine shop in my backyard just a block from SFMOMA: A two-for. I don’t remember the guy who assisted me that day, but thank you! Excellent pick!

This had crazy aromatics, huge aromas of flowers, fresh and cooling on the nose. Great balance of acid to mid to finish. It was very juicy, and mouthwatering.

Fresh pour: Nose of cassis and cherry. Crazy fresh with bouquet of the best smelling flowers, with a core of earth, subtle but there. As my nose goes in and out of that hand-blown crystal, each pass covers cool fresh berry, then a mid of orange earth which is reminiscent of burning candle, then there's an acetyl of nail polish hints, then back to crazy amazing berry. The berry smell is quite complex. I am attempting to dissect it: Elderberry, black cherry, tart of ripe lime rind, minerals, some saline that reminds me of an ancient sea, but predominantly gorgeous berry. Hats off to this. Hopefully it's still on the shelf.

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White

2020 Strekov 1075 Chardonnay

Južnoslovenská more

10/6/2023 - kapitanzolw Likes this wine: 89 points

Apple and lemon dominant with a hint of pear in the background. Creamy with a surprisingly high acidity for a chardonnay. Enjoyable wine, would definitely work with some white fish in beurre blanc.

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Orange

2021 Strekov 1075 Rizling Vlašský Heion na šupkách

Južnoslovenská more

10/5/2023 - natap Likes this wine: 85 points

Optischer Eindruck: Trübes, mittleres strohgelb

Geruch: Sauber. Ausgeprägte Aromen von Zitrone, Apfel, Traube, Orangenzesten, Vanille. Jugendlich.

Geschmack: Trocken, hohe, gut integrierte Säure, Alkohol 13%, mittlerer Körper mit mittleren Aromen wie in der Nase. Starke Betonung der Zitrusnoten, mittlerer Abgang

Schlussfolgerung: Gute Qualität. Dem Wein fehlt es etwas an Komplexität und Intensität. Jetzt trinken, nicht für weitere Lagerung geeignet.

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White

2021 Strekov 1075 Nigori

Južnoslovenská Welschriesling more

9/15/2023 - pat gva Likes this wine: 88 points

Nose : beeswax yeast intense
Mouth : more beeswax and yeast full body dry cider and
strange and unusual hint of earthiness
Final : long beeswax and hint of saltiness hard to give a mark completely different.

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Red

NV Strekov 1075 Fred #10

Južnoslovenská Red Blend more

8/20/2023 - heythatslife wrote: 91 points

Finally a natty wine that I actually like! In case the crown cap didn't provide a sufficient warning, it has enough funk, fizz, and glu glu characteristics to leave no doubt as to where it stands ideologically but it doesn't go over the top and it's still serious wine. Even has a mild tannic structure! Blackberry, dark cherry, pepper, clove, spruce. Feels very whole cluster. And so fresh. Forget zin, this is the red wine I want to pound at summer barbecues from here on out, chilled in a cooler.

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White

2021 Strekov 1075 Veltlin

Južnoslovenská Grüner Veltliner more

8/17/2023 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 95 points

. My most recent drink of Zsolt Sütó's 2018 Veltlin was a quasi-religious experience. Only after taking delivery of a few trial bottles of this 2021 did I noticed 14% alc. reported on the label. That seems on the high side. And not unexpectedly, after opening a cellar-temperature bottle, the first pour was somewhat thick-textured and praline. Now, after 24 hours, and from the fridge, it's gathered itself into an exciting, inspired object.
. The gravity of fruit here regulates stray marks of wild microecology without obscuring them. Persistent acidity, extracted from ripe solids, is ensconced in abundant folds of yellow plum pulp. (Adjectives are a drug.) Seething bedrock of crumbled marble and nutshell hold the action together. It's utterly sincere and open as it communicates unspeakable pleasure and delight. Acid freaks will admire the relentless cataract of whole lemon sur maturité. Ripeness boomers will recognize the massive, lithic significance of its structure.
. Drink this in the colder seasons. The qualities that make it heavy in a heatwave are working in your favor next to a campfire when you can see your breath. 55° outdoor air should be about right, sips>swill.
. Crown cap. Still wine. Hypothetically, mishandling could cause something to referment in there—but given the material, such an event might even be a flattering fork in the road.
. Pencil this in as a Slovakian Smaragd. Barring resupply, I should drink the remaining bottle after waiting a few years. 95+
. At various times while contemplating this wine, I was caused to recall other proper names. They included Humbrecht, Nikolaihof, Jura, Savagnin, Miraflores, and Numerous noms de la cote d'or.

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White

2021 Strekov 1075 Richard Šroner

Nitrianska Chardonnay more

8/10/2023 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 91 points

Produced and bottled by Strekov 1075 from Peter Šroner's fruit, grown 30km to the north in Nitra.

I'd like to see this in a Jura symposium. In my best imperial tourist vernacular, I find flavors in it that remind me of youngish l'Etoile in the hands of Jean Marc Brignot (but also random live-culture Beaune, Cota 45 Miraflores, Oriol Artigas' La Canya, Complemen'terre Muscadet, and so on.)

Notes: plenty of sour stiumulation; grape brulée; smashed lemon cataract; spiced chamomile; chalk; roots scavenging nutrient. Salt clay. Green algae. Likably drinkable. Relationship wine. Are these young vines? I shudder to think what they might produce after a few more harvests.

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White

2021 Strekov 1075 Rizling

Južnoslovenská Rizling Vlašský, Welschriesling more

8/9/2023 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 95 points

Confronted with such novel genius, it's tempting to give weight to those elements of analysis—𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘳. Yeasty; so noted! But wait, sensory adjustment stretches that impression out until it gains transparency and structure. It fades and morphs into a functional marker of freshness, less imposing and more supportive. The drink gains wholeness, taking on aromas and flavors of smashed lemons, thistle, and maraschino stone. As it develops, the event yields to a more thirst-quenching grammar: salty, marine, oyster liquor, almond, raspberry, and pear grass. This replicates all stages of evolutionary gastronomic virtue. Classical—raw; chilled tea infusion—ripe nutty extraction; beach dune—masonry arches; fields of pollinators—roots feasting on socially disruptive fungus.

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Red

NV Strekov 1075 Fred #9

Južnoslovenská Red Blend more

7/6/2023 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 90 points

In the Detroit market, Fred is the most consistently available cuvée from Strekov 1075, and it sells well. After my own marginally dismissible drinks of the Fred series (#2-3 iirc) I have since enjoyed a few quasi-religious experiences from this producer's white wines.

EYE: clear glass bottle shows off a lurid magenta ink color. No pressure disequilibrium could be heard from under the broken seal of the crown cap.
NOSE: after testing it yesterday in the hot sun, and resting overnight in the fridge, this smells much more tuned today. VA has modulated into something pretty—less composting apples; more whisper of latex. There is a confident base of solid, pulpy, black fruit extract that seems impervious to the goings on, whether in the macro or micro environments. Eventually I sense a trove of cured spices, tobacco and vanilla on the margins. MOUTH: big texture, lively with herbaceous brine acid, and girded with stoic, cool tannins the texture of galvanized steel. An outrageous abundance of plum, cherry, prune resin, and wild berries—smashed in molcahete, with bay leaf and spruce—complete the dramatic and assertive picture. For my purposes this is a large-in charge red that requires drinking chilled and in summer weather. Indoor wintertime settings might not contain it—a claustrogenic hazard! Lovers of ripe, extract-rich Chinon might find something familiar in this, maybe with a small, hypothetical dose of psychedelics.

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White

2021 Strekov 1075 Welschriesling Vino Šupkáč

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7/5/2023 - NiklasW Does not like this wine: 81 points

Popped and poured at fridge temp. OK this was a bit of a mistake, I thought it was a Slovenian wine when I grabbed it from the shop, and only discovered it was from Slovakia when I got home. It’s a bit weird, cloudy almost orange in colour. The nose is a bit oxidised, not showing much fruit, the palate is acidic, but with some body, a bit sherry like. I’m not sure what this wine is trying to be, but I don’t really like it.

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White

2017 Strekov 1075 Rizling

Južnoslovenská Rizling Vlašský, Welschriesling more

7/9/2020 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 97 points

This wine is life changing. Wholey familiar and wildly attractive. Grounded. Unashamed. Oblivious to fashion, even if I wish it could lead it. Slightly turbid. Dry, with no interruptions of sun and fruit. Ambient natitude, and nothing masked, especially not the old vines, dirt, ecosystem, manual workers, ... it's openly legible, and as soulful as I've ever experienced in a wine. Sorry for the intangible nature of this note, but it can't be any other way. Find some quotations from Zsolt Sütő—the philosopher who produces this—for actual insight.

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Orange - Sparkling

2021 Strekov 1075 Creme #6

Južnoslovenská Devín more

5/13/2023 - Emilbeer wrote: 50 points

Mango men dog snabbt, lite fotsvett

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Red

NV Strekov 1075 Fred #9

Južnoslovenská Red Blend more

4/2/2023 - Lukas_w Likes this wine: 87 points

Interesting Slovakian medium body bad boy. Red fruit with slight woodglue on the nose. Coaffable!

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NV Strekov 1075 Fred #8

Južnoslovenská Red Blend more

3/21/2023 - quaffnov Likes this wine: 91 points

An hour of decant time, this is a surprising experience, with more nuance to it than you would think would be here. Cherry notes along with forest floor are here in a structure than leans in on the tart side, tannins are enough in play to be an non issue while the acidity is brisk and enjoyable. Food brings out some interplay that enhances the drinking experience. Well worth the price, also the first bottle I have tried that required a beer bottle opener to get into it.

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Red

2020 Strekov 1075 Frankovka

Južnoslovenská Frankovka modrá, Blaufränkisch more

12/31/2022 - yung_alsace wrote: 89 points

Good acidity, dark fruit, forest floor. Solid

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White

2018 Strekov 1075 Veltlin

Južnoslovenská Grüner Veltliner more

12/24/2022 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 96 points

Hazy white gold. Hypnotic nose of straw honey, weeping cascades of hanging herbs, and resilience—mostly in the form of bedrock. Buried bones of nougat. Dune pollen. A laughably sincere invitation in its core. Brackish and fleet. A Le Méal vibe smug in the midst of storming bees and spiced twigs. Brittle sage. Marble.

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Red

NV Strekov 1075 Fred #7

Južnoslovenská Red Blend more

12/13/2020 - frvi Likes this wine: 89 points

Like a dark cherry juice that meets the eye. Graphite, and dark berries on the nose. Blueberry and cherry palate. Some violet. Medium acidity.

High drinkability this one.

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Red

2018 Strekov 1075 Pinot Noir

Južnoslovenská more

1/15/2021 - frvi Likes this wine: 90 points

Initially an insane horse manure! Almost fell of my chair. That goes away after a couple of hours in the carafe, cherry and other dark berries remains.

Blueberry, violet, charcuterie and leather palate.

A very fun wine. Drink now!

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