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Manage Subscriptions1990 Bonny Doon Vineyard Muscat Vin de Glacière
Muscat
- USA
- California
Community Tasting Notes 1
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Michael K. wrote:
April 8, 2012 - A great education in the effects of time on a wine. This wine isn't complex or flawed, but the descriptors mirror those states. Intact cork, soaked 3/4 of the way up, but dry on top w/o any signs of seepage. Appears a sort of rusty orange and not particularly viscous when poured.
N: musty, tobacco, mushroom, burnt sugar, dried herb - rosemary, thyme, eucalyptus. The sense of these descriptors is more tertiary - i.e. due to the process of aging - than fruit-driven. The only fruit-type element is a sort of moldy, ferment-y orange character.
M: Neither thin nor thick; assertively herbal in a pleasant way. Reminiscent of the orange/herb ricola cough drops. Very little in the way of a finish.
I hesitate to rate this wine. Probably somewhere in the mid to high 80s in terms of sensory enjoyment. 86 or 87. A simple wine that sat ignored for too long w/o either gaining complexity or falling apart. It's just...different on account of what time has done to it.
Wine Definition
- Vintage 1990
- Type White - Sweet/Dessert
- Producer Bonny Doon Vineyard
- Varietal Muscat
- Designation Vin de Glacière
- Vineyard n/a
- Country USA
- Region California
- SubRegion n/a
- Appellation California
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 0 (0%)
- In Cellars 18 (90%)
- Consumed 2 (10%)
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