2015 Alpha Box & Dice Golden Mullet Fury

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 90.4 points

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View pcwoz's profile
  • Report Issue

  2/24/2019 - pcwoz Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Really interesting. Nicely balanced.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View alpara's profile
  • Report Issue

  10/29/2017 - alpara Likes this wine: 91 Points

  This is an excellent everyday social wine, discerning drinkers, not a conventional wine but paired with food and good company, no complaints! .

  1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View forceberry's profile
  • Report Issue

  10/2/2017 - forceberry wrote: 91 Points

  An orange wine made from Sémillon (80%) and Viognier (20%). Sees 10 days of skin contact.
  
  Medium-deep golden yellow color. Fragrant and characterful nose with aromas of jalopeño, some bruised apple, a light yet obvious note of saffron and a touch of saffron and a vegetal hint of white asparagus. The wine is full-bodied, round and oily on the palate with characterful, rough-edged flavors of green chili, honey, ripe white peach, some bruised apple, a little bit of Moroccan spices and a hint of tannic astringency. The wine feels quite structured with its moderately high acidity and light touch of tannins, although a wine this big could've used even a bit more of both. The finish is pretty dry and somewhat oily with long, gentle and complex flavors of baked apple, some vegetal jalopeño character, a little bit of peach and a hint of acacia honey.
  
  A very attractive, gentle and positively mellow orange wine with a lot of depth and complexity. I guess most of the complexity comes from Sémillon whereas Viognier mainly contributes to the rich, viscous mouthfeel of the wine. Although the wine is pretty high in acidity with even a little bit of tannic grip, a wine this big might benefit even from more serious and tightly-knit structure. Overall this is a very nice and versatile wine that combines the rich flavors of a ripe white wine, the weight and body of a red wine and the smooth, easy-drinking quality of a rosé wine. Great stuff.

  1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (1)

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View alpara's profile
  • Report Issue

  9/24/2017 - alpara Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Complex, full flavoured but will polarise some palates Good for me but not all who drank it liked it

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View Timothy Sung's profile
  • Report Issue

  9/22/2017 - Timothy Sung Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Totally agree with Forceberrys comment

  1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment

Professional reviews have copyrights and you can view them here for your personal use only as private content. To view pro reviews you must either subscribe to a pre-integrated publication or manually enter reviews below. Learn more.