Community Tasting Note

csimm wrote:

Saturday, January 13, 2018 - Livermore AVA + Wente Dinner with a ton of other wines: Baked pear, apple pie crust, fried plantain, brioche, sea foam, and gray slate notes. A little ripe and heavy mid-palate, with a more voluptuous mouthfeel overall; somewhat funky on the finish, carrying additional notes of bread dough and ripe banana. There was enough cut and effervescence here to provide lift to the core fruit, and a saline note also added interest.

I’m more than fine declaring that I liked it, yet, there was indeed a “but” with this wine... It was interesting, unique, and I’d hope to think crafted with quality in mind, BUT its funkaliciousness could be a little off-putting for some. In fact, it was off-putting for some at the table. It was distracting at times, and took away from what would otherwise be a purer form of what this wine might or could have been.

91-92? points for me. In the end I’d revisit this wine, but I don’t know if I would travel to the ends of the earth for what has become its cult persona. I more preferred a NV Launois Champagne (served side-by-side) over this Ultramarine.

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