Community Tasting Notes 5

• PT insurgent wrote:

  March 5, 2022 - Drinking very nice.

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• JensAgo Likes this wine: 93 points

  October 18, 2021 - One of my all-time favourite orange wines, this one from Anselmo Mendes and made from alvarinho. Dark-golden appealing in the glass. Superb and intense nose - orange peels, nutty hints, flowers, some citrus. Palate is medium-bodied, extremely lively, vivid acidity, again nutty and lots of citrus, and a lingering, dry finish. Exceptional and complex wine, nuf said. Orange Wine Day, 2021

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• karl.1480 wrote: 86 points

  March 14, 2020 - BYOB 2020-03-14 Blind tasting (Göteborgs Vinkällare): Medium, golden color with orange reflections.
  
  A bit low-keyed nose showing fresh grapes, flowers, bitter orange, citrus oil, dried apricot and sultana raisins.
  
  Surprisingly light bodied with high acidity and a tiny little bitterness. Decent intensity to the flavors that has that dried stone fruit and spicy citrus-character. A bit weak on the middle and feels a bit disjointed. The finish is a bit tart and drying.
  
  Out guesses was all over the place but we agreed on that there must have been some skin-contact here. There is something aromatic and grape-y to the aromas and after some namedropping of more or less aromatic grape varieties we managed to get Alvarinho right.
  
  An uninspiring and rather forgettable bottle of wine and no way near worth it's pricetag.

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• PT insurgent wrote:

  September 21, 2019 - Tasting this wine again almost 2 and a half years after the first time, it is clear that he wine has improved immensely. Lots of ripe citrus and tropical fruit notes, raisiny, orange oils, candied grapefruit, dried mango. It has lost a lot of the estery quality from 2+ years ago. The wine is totally dry, with some tannic grip, less tannin than I remembered, probably also calmed down in the intervening years.
  This is an excellent wine.

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• PT insurgent wrote:

  April 22, 2017 - Portuguese orange wine.
  Orange oils, tropical fruits, somewhat candied, estery in nature, but not offensive in this way. Nose is somewhat reminiscent of very restrained gewurztraminer. Honey, floral, dried rose, bruised pear. A bit nutty on the palate. It is sort of all over the place and really hard to pin down. Tannin is definitely noticeable. I drink very very little orange wine, and this is probably the only orange wine made from Alvarinho so I have no idea what it should taste like. It is OK. At the moment definitely not worth the ~67 euros I paid for this as I do not think it delivers on flavor or depth. The producer has wines at half that price that are much more interesting, nuanced and complete. I have no clue how long to hold onto my two other bottles.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2015
• Type White
• Producer Anselmo Mendes
• Varietal Alvarinho
• Designation Tempo
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Portugal
• Region Minho
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Vinho Verde
• UPC Code 5606486535507

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• In Cellars 26 (67%)
• Consumed 13 (33%)

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