Community Tasting Notes 6

• soyhead wrote:

  May 14, 2023 - Darker in color, a bit advanced , tasting advanced as well, not bad per se but perhaps not as intended. In its current incarnation best for cheese.

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• Gatsbeaner Likes this wine: 90 points

  March 30, 2023 - 13.5% ABV. PnP Cellar Temp 55F, then chilled a bit in an ice bucket. Pours amber golden yellow of a slightly aged saternes. Lanolin/furniture wax and small white flowers on the nose, salty slightly viscous honeyed palate. Definitely oxidated, but not overly so. Bruised pear and honey with some lingering bitterness. Medium- acid. Really interesting wine and would be great with some tinned fish, but wish I got to taste it a few years ago like another note mentioned.

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• Papies wrote: 91 points

  March 16, 2023 - I think we got to it a few years too late as the wine now has a nobly oxidated ( not bad) and well evolved palate. it is still a very much enjoyable and special wine and impressive that Thrapsathiri ages that well ( we really have little experience with this grape) . Golden-ish , honeysuckle, soft wine and round with a well evolved feel. Still good but past its best! 90-91

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• Floyd77 Likes this wine: 93 points

  June 22, 2022 - Captivating -- honeysuckle, even butterscotch, but not sweet. Pronounced acidity and a finish that goes on and on. This is a truly a unique, fascinating, wine -- I didn't know what to make of it at first, and I'm still not sure I do. The Odyssey has only just begun. Thankfully, I have a few more bottles.

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• forceberry wrote: 93 points

  January 21, 2022 - 100% organically farmed old-vine Thrapsathiri from Sitia, Crete. Fermented spontaneously, aged for multiple years in mixed vessels. 13,5% alcohol.
  
  Slightly evolved lemon-yellow color with faint greenish highlights. The nose feels complex, somewhat evolved and quite captivating with layered aromas of smoke, pouch tobacco, some resinous notes, a little bit of hay, light oxidative notes of bruised apple, lifted hints of eucalyptus and nail polish, a bretty touch of leather and a whiff of phenolic spice reminding me of Tripel beer. The wine is concentrated, somewhat waxy and quite idiosyncratic on the palate with flavors of bretty leather, rosin, some evolved notes of wizened yellow fruits, light sweet nuances of overripe apricot, fragrant hint of exotic savory spices and a sappy touch of aromatic green herbs. The moderately high acidity lends great sense of balance and firmness to the palate. The finish is long, ripe and quite concentrated with complex flavors of waxy funk, some resinous character, a little bit of ripe nectarine, light bretty notes of leathery funk, a hint of smoky phenolic spice and a touch of bruised apple.
  
  A very complex, distinctive and harmonious white that is at the same time rustic and funky, yet brimming with class and purity of fruit, powerful and concentrated, yet remarkably fresh and surprisingly light on its feet. Although the wine isn't similar to a white Musar in any way, it might be the closest thing I can come up with if I had to give a more widely-known name that would be in the same ballpark in terms of style, harmony and complexity. Very distinctive stuff, and although the wine is showing a little bit of age now, at almost 10 years of age, I have no problems believing that this wine will continue to improve in a cellar. Solid value at 45€.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2012
• Type White
• Producer Domaine Economou
• Varietal Thrapsathiri
• Designation Odyssey
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Greece
• Region Crete
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Sitia

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• Pending Delivery 1 (3%)
• In Cellars 21 (55%)
• Consumed 16 (42%)

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