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Wine Definition
- Vintage2013
- TypeRed
- ProducerOttin
- VarietyFumin
- Designationn/a
- Vineyardn/a
- CountryItaly
- RegionValle d'Aosta
- SubRegionValle d'Aosta
- AppellationValle d'Aosta
- Display optionsVariety and Appellation
9/4/2022 - Fractalage Likes this wine:
Excellent wine!
My second bottle since I cleared out my cellar of this.
Let stand for 5 weeks, as there was plenty of sediment.
This bottle held obvious notes of whole cluster fermentations with lots of stem tannins, that I love.
It had a super interesting nose of sharp berry and bacteria. It smelled like wine had spilt on a barn floor of straw and had putrefied there.
Hours later it's nose was of gorgeous flowers, and I could not stop smelling.
Wow wine.
Love this wine.
Wish I could find more of this.
Years ago I purchased all that this old company had on Camino Real and San Antonio in Mountain View. Now, it seems that only Biondivido has bottle of Fumin, but from Gros Jean.
Such a good wine.
Dregs from bottle, now 9 hours decanted:
Nose of sharp cherry and rhubarb, dense with complexity other than that.
There's baking spices and yummy cakes, with a core of cherries and and earthen component that is very endearing.
Palate is very enjoyable with sharp acid and cherry, concentration and yumminess that I've found in Christophe Baron's wines.
Paid $23 for the bottle, years ago.
What a bargain.
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11/13/2020 - Fractalage Likes this wine:
Friday the thirteenth wine!
Strange, but this bottle contained none of the funk I tasted in the other bottle. Maybe the funk settled out in the dense black sediment that was at the bottom of this bottle.
A week ago I pulled this from my art studio fridge. It had cloudy color until today. A half glass remained in the bottle with black sludge.
It was sharp and fresh with Kaliope of fruit. After a glass I pinned that fruit down to wild cherry, elderberry and mulberry with an earthen core, but no funk. Crazy. But no funk. Kind of makes me sad. I love funk.
Every night I pray for more global warming so that areas of higher altitude can produce such as this, but sadly, looking at the sun reports, with no sunspots for almost 2 years it looks like we are in a cooling period. Last year Northern Italy lost its olive fruit to snow. Huge crop failure in China. Prepare for an interesting decade.
I can't Find this grape anywhere, and I live in USA's 2nd best place for that. NY is the best in USA, and SF the 2nd best for unique wine discovery. Purchased this from Artisan. Bought all they had 3 years ago.
Long live Fumin!
Oh, there's the funk!
I poured out the dregs and there it was. Yep, it had settled out: Big black chunks of funk.
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12/27/2019 - Fractalage Likes this wine: 90 Points
Funky cherries, is what I shall call this wine, as it is truly funky cherries.
I love it.
There's a green aspect to it, but most of all the greatness of funk.
When I start that funky wine review, this shall be in there.
I love the cherries and the spice with hoisin, soy sauce, flame cooked ground beef sauce. It's dry with herbs, smoke and tart with a touch of bell pepper.
Just a great wine.
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2/10/2017 - Ian S wrote:
Quite dark in colour with reasonable depth.
The nose leads strongly with herby fruits (more red than black) backed by smoky tar and violets.
Medium bodied palate, a little youthfully juicy / slightly confected, which should settle down with 2-3 years more age. Acidity in firm support and the light tannins are mostly hidden behind the fruit. Some smoky bitterness emerges on the finish, pleasing enough.
Quite a refreshing wine to drink now, with the twist of bitterness on the finish adding interest / keeping a savoury element. My gut feel is this should be more interesting 2-3 years from now and could potentially improve beyond that.
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12/2/2015 - forceberry wrote: 90 Points
Very deep and dark black cherry color with a hint of youthful blue hue. The nose is ripe, dense and quite expressive with aromas of ripe black cherries, some fragrant smoky tones typical of the variety, a little bit of nice animal funk and a subtly lifted hint of sweet, blueberry-like volatile character. The wine is ripe, rich and medium-to-moderately full-bodied on the palate with surprisingly concentrated feel for a Fumin. There are juicy and still pretty primary flavors of sweet dark berries, earthy spices, some crushed peppercorns, a little bit of concentrated dark fruits and a touch of smoke. The structure relies more on the crunchy and moderately high acidity than on the rather modest tannins. The finish is rich, fruity and clean with quite primary flavors of black pepper-driven spices, ripe dark berries, some allspice, a little bit of brambly boysenberries and black raspberries, a hint of red plums and a touch of smoke.
A nice, fruity and surprisingly big and concentrated Fumin. Overall the wine is pretty recognizable example of the variety, due to the varietally typical notes of smoke and crushed peppercorns, but I've used to the varietal Fumins being lighter and less concentrated in style - this shows a bit more weight and body than your run-of-the-mill Fumin. Overall nice stuff with lovely brightness and intensity. The wine appears still quite youthful and primary at the age of 2 years, so I'd let the wine wait for at least 2-3 more years before popping another open. Most likely will keep nicely until at least the age of 10 years.
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