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By Julia Harding, MW
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9/15/2018 - HandmadeHomemade wrote:
The wine pours a youthful dark purple, aromas of ripe purple fruits, lilac, and licorice root-earth, with this kinda weird yeastiness going on. In the mouth the wine is pretty tannic up front, full bodied, but tannin forward. There is a softness, almost saline quality to the wine after the initial assault of the tannins. At this point, the wine gains a sort of yeasty character- I don't really care for this, and hopefully it will blow off, seems over-pitched, though I know nothing of their winemaking process. The wine finishes with a earthy-tar note that I really like, reminds me of aglianico or sagrantino, but more fruit. Needs food!
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2/10/2018 - Papies wrote: 87 Points
Decanting is advisable as it had a bit of undiluted gas on the palate.
Dark colour, bright, glossy. Red fruited on the nose , decent amount of well used oak, quite open but not really singing nose. On the palate its fresh and on the young side relatively but fails to make an impression. A good wine but for the moment at least not great. 87
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4/29/2017 - retired_and_roving Likes this wine:
Wine tasting in Greece; 4/28/2017-5/6/2017 (Athens, Santorini and Porto Heli): This has an expressive nose of red fruits and earth - nice aromatics. Tastes of tart crunchy red fruits with a lot of earthy minerality on the finish. Quite nice and reminds me a bit of some Etta Rosso with its bright acidity, lighter body and minerality. Very good QPR and quite enjoyable. My first time with these grape varieties which we are sampling while on holiday in Santorini.
Also tried on tasting visit at Domaine Sigalas. Learned that they are experimenting and are the only winery on the island growing their red grapes using a trellis system. They found that the basket system was producing grapes that were too tannic. Interesting as this ended up being our favorite of the red wines sampled on the island. Mavrotagno is apparently a highly tannic grape with very thick skins, the trellis structure allows more sun exposure and breaks down some of the tannins in the skin.
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3/19/2017 - ChristopherB wrote:
Belle robe rubis moyenne+ soutenue. Au nez, c'est très original. On y trouve des fruits rouges et noirs (raisin) et confiture de prune, mais aussi le côté minéral de Santorin. Une touche d'encre aussi. En bouche, l'attaque est franche avec des tannins très serrés, très présents mais d'une bonne finesse. Le tout suivi par le beau fruité avec une bonne vivacité pour équilibrer. Ce sont les tannins qui m'épatent, tout en étant fin. C'est un vin qui a besoin d'un steak ou de courage. J'aime bien - à regoûter un example qui a 5-8 ans d'âge. Hors norme (stylistiquement). Après quelques heures, je commence à noter des arômes de "nail polish remover". Hmmm...
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10/22/2016 - forceberry wrote: 92 Points
My previous tasting notes still apply.
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