Community Tasting Note

forceberry wrote:

Saturday, November 20, 2021 - A naturalist Moschomavro, macerated with the skins for 4 weeks and then aged for 5 months in old, neutral oak barrels. Bottled unfined and unfiltered. Bottle no. 1643 of total 3000 bottles. 13% alcohol.

Pale, translucent cranberry juice color with a slightly evolved pomegranate hue. Quite sauvage and lifted nose with aromas of slightly animalistic funk, some ripe strawberry, light volatile notes of nail polish, a little bit of acetic vinegary character with a subtly balsamic edge, light cherry nuances and a touch of beetroot juice. The wine is lively, quite crunchy and slightly cleaner on the palate than what the nose suggest. Flavors of ripe cherries and tart cranberries, some volatile notes of nail polish, a little bit of wild strawberry, light vinegary nuances of balsamico and a hint of stony minerality. The wine is medium in body with high acidity and very light and gentle tannins. The finish is wild, slightly acetic and ever-so-slightly grippy with with crunchy flavors of wild strawberries and tart cranberries, some sweeter notes of ripe cherries, a little bit of cooked rose hips, light volatile nail polish tones, a hint of beet root and a touch of acetic roughness in the throat.

A fresh and crunchy but also very sauvage and funky naturalist from Greece. I'm not entirely sure if I really can pick much varietal characteristics of Moschomavro here, since the wine is so volatile and acetic that a good deal of the varietal aromas get overwhelmed. Drinks more like a generic Jura red or Cru Beaujolais than anything I'd associate with Greece. Would be more enjoyable with less pronounced acetic character, as now the wine feels more like a rather anonymous natty wine. Comes across as a bit expensive for the quality at 21€.

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