Community Tasting Note
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IB71 wrote: 89 points
June 16, 2016 - (tasted semi-blind)
The wine is pale ruby in colour. It has medium intensity developing aromas of fresh red fruit (redcurrant, rhubarb, strawberry) with additional notes of herbaceousness plus hints of florality (rose) and oak/cloves. The wine is dry with medium(+) acidity, medium(-) level of tannin, medium alcohol, medium body and medium intensity flavours reflecting the nose, albeit with oak-notes being more pronounced on the palate. Light, silky mouthfeel and medium(+) – slightly bitter - finish.
It’s a good/very good quality wine combining typicity of the variety and a certain flavour concentration with pleasant acidic balance and an almost burgundian silky-light mouthfeel. On the downside, oak flavours are somewhat exaggerated (even slightly crude), and slight hints of unpleasant phenolics appear on the finish. (87-88/100)
EDIT: re-tasting the wine 24 hours later has resulted in a higher rating. The finish is more harmonious and the oak now seems better integrated, although still a bit too obvious for the wine to really knock my socks off.1,433 views