2008 Pheasant's Tears Saperavi
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Saturday, July 11, 2020 - 2008 Saperavi experimental, kept on the skins in qvevri for 8 years before bottling. Purchased at the restaurant in Sighnaghi in August 2018. Decanted for 2 hours.
Color is a beautiful dark purple with crimson edges. No browning or other age showing. Nose has a reductive note you get in a lot of Georgian wines, as well as very dark blackberry and dark red berries. A bit of cedar and lead as well. Absolutely gorgeous spell.
On the tongue, it feels medium bodied. It has a bit of Brett, not disimilar to Musar, but has a very strong acid backbone very common in Saperavi wines. Has sour cherry and more blackberry as well as a bit of minerality and “woodsy-ness”. It finished very very dry.
A very nice wine for my flavor profile, made all the better by my memory of purchasing the bottle.
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