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• rjonwine@gmail.com wrote: 91 points

  November 30, 2015 - Very light pink color with abundant, steady, tiny bubbles; appealing, fresh, strawberry, raspberry, strawberry jam nose; tasty, medium bodied, creamy textured, raspberry, tart strawberry, dried strawberry, white chocolate palate with medium acidity; medium-plus finish (100% Pinot Noir; 8 grams dosage)

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• Tim Heaton commented:

  1/8/16, 3:26 PM - hi, Richard, thanks for the note. I've had a number of wines from Brazil pretty consistently for more than 10 yrs at trade tastings. It seems the vast majority of what I taste is poor>mediocre quaffing juice. However, there's always a few at the tastings that are quite nice, but are also quite expensive and make little sense at the retail/winebuyer level. Is this in the latter camp, or is it affordable? Does it already have distribution in CA? TIA

• rjonwine@gmail.com commented:

  1/8/16, 4:13 PM - Hi Tim,
  I've had similar experience with Brazilian wines over the years. They've also had an unusually high percentage of corked bottles in my experience, up until the last few years, due to dumping of bad corks there by unscrupulous Portuguese cork producers. The vast majority--90%--of wines made there are poor quality table wine. There are, however, several producers making world class wines--both sparkling and still. Salton is a solid producer which has a little U.S. distribution so far. The top producers are Lidio Carraro, Don Giovanni (amazing sparklers), Cave Geisse and Pizzato. I visited virtually all the producers worth visiting on a trip organized by Wines of Brazil & Evan Goldstein the first week of December 2015.

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