fresh, alive, unusual.. intense nose of apricot. good acidity. beautiful orange color. this wine is interesting and enjoyable. I like to get my blend with more of the whole-cluster (Hardy will custom blend it for you).
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maybe I just don't get this wine. Sweet-sour, high alcohol.. funky VA nail-polish nose.. either this wine has off the charts spoilage rates and bottle variation (2 out of 2 bottles bad?), or I just don't get the style. The wine I had didn't have anything like a pinot-noir like nose. I'm sorry but it just wasn't drinkable. I let it sit out for a day, two days, that didn't help.
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I suspect the problem with these "hyper-natural" wines, like this one and the Tuderi, is that they either (a) don't travel well or (b) have off-the-charts bottle variation (both might be due to the low-sulphur natural winemaking?) In any case this wine had a nose of yeast and it just falls apart on the palate.. watery acid mineral juicewater. No finish whatsoever. I just can't imagine this is the "normal" state of this wine that would prompt Rimmerman from Garagiste to write of it as "a wine you will not easily forget".. I can only imagine this wine *should* have tasted somewhat like The Natural Process Alliance's '09 Sauvignon Blanc, which I find very enjoyable and unusual (a good thing.. amazing tertiary aromas), but there's a reason NPA only sells their wine within a 100 mile radius I guess.
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2009 Natural Process Alliance Sauvignon Blanc
2/13/2011 - imalone wrote: 91 Points
fresh, alive, unusual.. intense nose of apricot. good acidity. beautiful orange color. this wine is interesting and enjoyable. I like to get my blend with more of the whole-cluster (Hardy will custom blend it for you).
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2003 Tenute Dettori Tuderi Romangia IGT
2/13/2011 - imalone wrote:
maybe I just don't get this wine. Sweet-sour, high alcohol.. funky VA nail-polish nose.. either this wine has off the charts spoilage rates and bottle variation (2 out of 2 bottles bad?), or I just don't get the style. The wine I had didn't have anything like a pinot-noir like nose. I'm sorry but it just wasn't drinkable. I let it sit out for a day, two days, that didn't help.
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2008 Sebastien Riffault Sancerre Akméniné
2/13/2011 - imalone wrote:
I suspect the problem with these "hyper-natural" wines, like this one and the Tuderi, is that they either (a) don't travel well or (b) have off-the-charts bottle variation (both might be due to the low-sulphur natural winemaking?) In any case this wine had a nose of yeast and it just falls apart on the palate.. watery acid mineral juicewater. No finish whatsoever. I just can't imagine this is the "normal" state of this wine that would prompt Rimmerman from Garagiste to write of it as "a wine you will not easily forget".. I can only imagine this wine *should* have tasted somewhat like The Natural Process Alliance's '09 Sauvignon Blanc, which I find very enjoyable and unusual (a good thing.. amazing tertiary aromas), but there's a reason NPA only sells their wine within a 100 mile radius I guess.
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