Spicy, very earthy nose with only the very slightest touch of brett which I find pleasant. Surprisingly light, elegant mouth. Maintains earthiness into the finish with moderate acidity. Reminds me somewhat of an Etna Nerello Mascalese but with even a touch more earth and without the sweet cherry notes. Both interesting and extremely enjoyable.
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No formal note but still alive and kicking. Certainly retains the gun powder note which is distinctive - great acidity and went well with a grilled paella - fun to drink
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Had pretty high hopes for how this would age when tasted a few years back. The wine didn’t deliver according to my expectations this time as it has become more one-dimensional and with less complexity now, than four years ago. Still good and with a nice sea/salt/seaweed-charachter, but not as good as I had hoped.
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Nose obscured by reduction, with strong gunpowder scent. Too bad -- underneath a really pretty, lifted wine with red berries and charcoal on the back end. Distinctive.
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I love this wine - so refreshingly individual. Savoury (white pepper, roast meats), but with enough of a plummy core that it's not austere; medium bodied, rustic, with a rugged crushed-rocks mineral streak. Really characterful.
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Second bottle. First was clearly flawed - second is drinkable but still has some of those same characteristics. Hard to square my experience with the other notes here. Nothing fruity at all. Very minieral, almost a gunpowder struck match note. Not rating this as I'll assume mine are bad bottles.
Bright red fruit, tobacco, herbs, flowers and loads of minerality - gravel, minerals, crushed rock. Hints of reduction that makes you think of poulsard, eventhough the aromatics are different. Lovely wine!
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Wierd Grapes First Get Together (Jelle in Amsterdam): A red field blend, so its hard to tell exactly what grapes we are drinking. Lightest colour of the flight and style wise I have "farmers burg, which a dash of Southern Rhone". This is more refined than the white version, with a touch smokey and animal on the nose, red fruits and medium acidity. We all liked this and it would fit well as a pirate in an Etna tasting
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Violet to raspberry in colour. Very youthful fruity nose with some spice and gum-like (carbonic?) tones, then earth and ash. Good acidity, light on the palate, very lightly tannic, some minerality. I didn't particularly like the almost obtrusive fruity nose, but it's a nice and interesting wine otherwise. Not much concentration you'd expect from such an old vines though. Perhaps, I just didn't get it in a quick tasting.
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field blend of 15 different varieties from 130 year old vines grown on a cliff above the atlantic. First vintage. An enticingly spicy, spiky nose from the high proportion of whole bunch; and subtle floral background notes that I suspect will come to the fore with more time in bottle. The fruit profile is darker but in the mouth it sets the pulse racing like the silkiest of Volnays. Then there's a distinctly non-Burgundian salinity. So much vitality. Fabulous wine. And this is only the ‘village’?!
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8/26/2021 - juffer Likes this wine: 93 Points
Spicy, very earthy nose with only the very slightest touch of brett which I find pleasant. Surprisingly light, elegant mouth. Maintains earthiness into the finish with moderate acidity. Reminds me somewhat of an Etna Nerello Mascalese but with even a touch more earth and without the sweet cherry notes. Both interesting and extremely enjoyable.
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11/8/2020 - drfloyd wrote:
No formal note but still alive and kicking. Certainly retains the gun powder note which is distinctive - great acidity and went well with a grilled paella - fun to drink
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9/27/2019 - aekenback wrote: 89 Points
Had pretty high hopes for how this would age when tasted a few years back. The wine didn’t deliver according to my expectations this time as it has become more one-dimensional and with less complexity now, than four years ago. Still good and with a nice sea/salt/seaweed-charachter, but not as good as I had hoped.
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11/19/2016 - gtilley wrote:
On this occasion, bretty, reductive, gunpowdery, savoury; paired with Hermitage it could pass for Northern Rhone.
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6/16/2016 - theronware wrote: flawed
Nose obscured by reduction, with strong gunpowder scent. Too bad -- underneath a really pretty, lifted wine with red berries and charcoal on the back end. Distinctive.
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5/26/2016 - gtilley wrote: 93 Points
I love this wine - so refreshingly individual. Savoury (white pepper, roast meats), but with enough of a plummy core that it's not austere; medium bodied, rustic, with a rugged crushed-rocks mineral streak. Really characterful.
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5/8/2016 - pryby wrote:
Second bottle. First was clearly flawed - second is drinkable but still has some of those same characteristics. Hard to square my experience with the other notes here. Nothing fruity at all. Very minieral, almost a gunpowder struck match note.
Not rating this as I'll assume mine are bad bottles.
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1/23/2016 - pryby wrote: flawed
Dog at the beach + rubber cement.
Badly flawed.
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10/2/2015 - aekenback wrote: 91 Points
Bright red fruit, tobacco, herbs, flowers and loads of minerality - gravel, minerals, crushed rock. Hints of reduction that makes you think of poulsard, eventhough the aromatics are different. Lovely wine!
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2/3/2015 - mychurch wrote: 91 Points
Wierd Grapes First Get Together (Jelle in Amsterdam): A red field blend, so its hard to tell exactly what grapes we are drinking. Lightest colour of the flight and style wise I have "farmers burg, which a dash of Southern Rhone". This is more refined than the white version, with a touch smokey and animal on the nose, red fruits and medium acidity. We all liked this and it would fit well as a pirate in an Etna tasting
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12/22/2014 - igaf wrote:
Violet to raspberry in colour. Very youthful fruity nose with some spice and gum-like (carbonic?) tones, then earth and ash. Good acidity, light on the palate, very lightly tannic, some minerality. I didn't particularly like the almost obtrusive fruity nose, but it's a nice and interesting wine otherwise. Not much concentration you'd expect from such an old vines though. Perhaps, I just didn't get it in a quick tasting.
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12/14/2014 - davestenton wrote:
field blend of 15 different varieties from 130 year old vines grown on a cliff above the atlantic. First vintage. An enticingly spicy, spiky nose from the high proportion of whole bunch; and subtle floral background notes that I suspect will come to the fore with more time in bottle. The fruit profile is darker but in the mouth it sets the pulse racing like the silkiest of Volnays. Then there's a distinctly non-Burgundian salinity. So much vitality. Fabulous wine. And this is only the ‘village’?!
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