Community Tasting Note

RajivAyyangar wrote:

Saturday, June 4, 2016 - De Fargues vertical + Nopa (Sense, Nopa): (blind)
Medium plus concentration ruby-purple, vibrant.
Nebbiolo structure slight black pepper. Dark tart blackberry. Earthy.
Elevated acid. Grippy high tannins, chewy . 14.5%
No new oak.
Youthful.

Carignane?
Syrah?
I’m very confused here.
With the elevated alcohol and high tannins, and elevated acid, cabernet and nebbiolo are a possibility. but there’s no cassis or pyrazinic cabernet fruit character, no signs of new oak, and the color is completely wrong for nebbiolo (also doesn’t have the development of a barolo, barbaresco). Other tannic grapes: acid is too high for madiran, tannat, and other southern french tannic grapes. Could be new world syrah with intense extraction but the tannic structure is like nothing I’ve gotten on syrah before. there’s a hint of black pepper but the dark fruit isn’t really there in an intense enough way for a new world syrah.
No final call - I don’t have a box to put this in.

actually: 2011 pago de los capellanes, ribera del duero crianza (tempranillo)

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