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• forceberry wrote: 73 points

  September 23, 2015 - 12% alcohol, 3,9g/l acidity.
  
  Pale green color. Slightly greenish, reticent yet nicely nuanced nose with underplayed elegance: white fruits, fresh pear, some herbaceous nuances, a hint of Grüner Veltliner-ish white pepper and a touch of stone dust. Light, pure and clean in the mouth with steely overall appearance and medium-minus acidity. Flavors of ripe apples and sweet lemony citrus fruits with almost springwater-like minerality. The mouthfeel is soft and the wine feels a little thin and flabby - a characteristic that seems to get more pronounced as the wine gets warmer. Clean, neutral, steely, mid-length finish with faint hints of yellow apple in the aftertaste.
  
  As clean and neutral as one can expect a Koshu to be. Very Petit Chablis-like in its steely and appley style, although the acidity of this wine is far lower than anything from Chablis. Because of its low-ish acidity the wine seems to lack intensity and structure, making it appear flabby and diluted. Probably a good fit for Japanese dishes, but otherwise it is hard to come up with any real purpose for this wine: it is boring on its own and lacks structure to be a versatile food wine. As the wine drinks like a 10€ wine, its price tag of 49,20€ seems honestly quite ridiculous.

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• Vintage 2011
• Type White
• Producer Magrez-Aruga
• Varietal Koshu
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Isehara
• Country Japan
• Region Chūbu
• SubRegion Yamanashi
• Appellation Katsunuma

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