2014 Gramona Xarello Penedès Ovum

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 81.5 points

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  11/29/2019 - Marius Cavasdan wrote: 86 Points

  Aged in steel and think some oak. Fermented in egg shaped amphoras. Pale yellow color. Nose comes with grapefruit. Hints of oxidation. Some mushrooms. Palate dominated by high acidity. Citrusy. Long. Stone fruits. Bit unbalanced, with the oak, the piercing acidity and the oxidation hints . Overall good

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  4/28/2019 - forceberry wrote: 77 Points

  100% organic Xarel-lo, fermented and aged in concrete eggs and terracotta amphorae. 12% alcohol.
  
  Youthful and quite intense grassy-greenish color. Ripe and slightly sweet-toned nose with straightforward and somewhat closed aromas of fresh red apples, some woolly lanolin and a little bit of leesy creaminess. Not much going on here. The wine is medium-bodied and fresh yet somewhat neutral on the palate with flavors of some tangy green apples, a little bit of leesy character, light chalk dust tones, a hint of damp wool and a grassy touch of herbal greenness. The wine is moderately high in acidity. The finish is lively, somewhat leesy and medium in length with quite intensely neutral flavors of green apples, even some lactic apple yoghurt tones, a little bit of apple peel bitterness and a yeasty hint of leesiness.
  
  While the vintage 2013 felt fresh, crisp and focused in style, this wine felt more like a classic Xarel-lo: lacking the intensity, crisp acidity and freshness of fruit. Instead, this vintage felt more linear, with somewhat subdued fruit and slightly grassy, herbal undertones. However, it might be that this wine just wasn't made to be aged: I had tasted the vintage 2013 at 2 years of age, while this was more than twice as old at 4½ years of age. Perhaps the wine would've performed better 2 years ago? Now it really didn't offer much of interest.

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