Community Tasting Note
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avp wrote:
July 19, 2018 - After a 5h drive it takes 2 hours of reading LOTR to your son before he falls asleep. It's 1.30am, but you have decided to pop open a refreshing rose to fight the tormenting tropical night watching Peckinpah's Getaway.
Quite a rose it is! A 1974 Cirò Rosato by Caparra & Siciliani. Is there anything rose wine like here? Yes. Obviously not the colour, neither the nose - but the mouthfeel!
Very open on the aged nose with notes of dried apricots, figs, tobacco, nuts, blood, pastry, salt licorice and mushrooms coming and going like the neighbourhood kids in the good ol' 1980s.
The palate is light, dense and vibrant with a refreshing bitter grip but still aged and nuanced at the same time. Usually when the nose is an umbrella of descriptors, the palate has at least started to slow down getting rid off all the extra opulence. But not here; the palate is almost more caleidoscopic. The balance and structure are spot on and still all the aged tertiary aromas from the nose are here again. And they've even brought friends!
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