2011 Gramona Pinot Noir Penedès Bru de Gramona

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  10/1/2014 - forceberry wrote: 74 Points

  Fermented in French oak vats. Aged for 9 months in new 300 liter Allier oak barrels and further 12 months in the bottle.
  
  Translucent dark cherry color. Very rich, generous and quite sweet nose of ripe dark berries, especially blackberries. With air the nose starts to show some spicy Pinosity as well. Quite full-bodied and juicy on the palate with flavors of raspberry jam, some blueberries, a little blackcurrant jam and a hint of sweet cocoa oak. There is a quite prominent streak of bitterness that serves as a counterpoint to the rather sweet, jammy fruit. The wine is pretty low in acidity and tannins, although the tannins feel rather astringent almost green as well. The winish is warm, sweet and spicy with rather prominent tannic bitterness and some mouthdrying astringency. There are flavors of raspberry jam, peppery spice, some sweet spicy oak and a hint of fresh blackcurrants in the aftertaste.
  
  Well, the pronounced bitterness cuts quite nicely the jammy sweetness of the palate, giving the wine at least some notion of balance. Still, the wine feels way too sweet, fat and flabby with too prominent new oak character on top of everything. A boring and quite unbalanced Pinot Noir devoid of finesse and Pinosity. Not recommended and a rip-off at 20,40€.

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