Community Tasting Notes 26

• Echinosum Likes this wine: 94 points

  April 4, 2024 - Is it really over a year since I last opened one?
  
  This was in a really nice place today, none of the funny kinks, just beautifully integrated and balanced.

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• Panegyric wrote: 91 points

  February 18, 2024 - A blend with Rousanne, Semillon, Chenin Blanc, Clairette Blanche & Chardonnay. Well balanced and interesting flavor profile. Quite unique. Flavors of peach, herbs, some bitter notes, crushed rock minerality. Oily texture. Tasty with a medium long aftertaste.

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• Echinosum Likes this wine: 94 points

  February 7, 2023 - Only 10 weeks since I last drank a bottle. I decided this was a pearl I should avoid casting before swine, and so drank it myself on a random February weekend.
  
  It was all about wax, lanolin and mouth-feel and intensity. So concentrated. Decanted for a couple of hours. The oxidative touch was absent until day 3. It is a feature of those roussanne wines we love, but I feel happier with less of it.
  
  Why is this so much better than the last bottle? Did I open the previous one too soon after its journey from remote storage. Or that bottles vary rather more when made by such artisanal methods? Or that I kept it all for myself without having to suffer other people's comments?

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• Echinosum Likes this wine: 92 points

  November 20, 2022 - A highly individual wine. Not everyone would like it, at all. A vino de meditazione, concentrated, complex, challenging. On first nosing, the sémillon was very evident, waxy, lanolin. As it grew in the glass, the roussanne tended to take over, to a surprising extent, with that yeasty, sherried taste. I think this is maybe what other tasters are calling a "touch of oxidation", but I think that is just what roussanne can taste like after a few years. We had it with smoked salmon first, which wasn't quite right: it was perfect with the cheese, far better than most red wines.
  
  It is a deep gold colour, but this is a unfined wine with skin contact. The balance seems sufficient to carry this on. I don't feel hurried to drink this. But I will choose the audience for it carefully.

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• NickA Likes this wine: 90 points

  September 10, 2022 - Stony, attractively bitter, rounded; perhaps slightly cooler and more poised than the typical white Rhone despite the similarities? Probably had better aromatics than I am crediting it with, as I had a cold when I drank this.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2017
• Type White
• Producer Thorne & Daughters
• Varietal White Blend
• Designation Rocking Horse
• Vineyard n/a
• Country South Africa
• Region Western Cape
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• Appellation n/a
• UPC Code 606110152396

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• In Cellars 164 (44%)
• Consumed 197 (53%)

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