2018 Ochota Barrels Gamay The Price of Silence

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 89.5 points

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  10/2/2021 - Skaftun wrote: 90 Points

  Smoth and fruity. Red fruit, long taste. Very good balanced

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  3/24/2020 - R.H. Likes this wine:

  Good not great

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  2/7/2019 - forceberry wrote: 89 Points

  Vinified 50% whole bunch, 50% carbonic for 6 days with no cap management. Aged in old French barriques. Bottled unfined and unfiltered with 20 mg/l SO2. 11,8% alcohol, 6,3 g/l acidity, pH 3,35. Bottle #515 out of total 1208 bottles.
  
  Beautifully clear, translucent cherry red color with a hint of youthful purple. The sappy nose feels rather green-toned with aromas of chokeberries, some leafy green tones, a little bit of boysenberries, light lifted notes of boysenberries, a hint of inky character and a resinous touch of pine cone. The wine is dry, wild and crunchy on the palate with medium body and lively flavors of crowberries, astringent chokeberries, some wild strawberries, a little bit of brambly black raspberries, a hint of leafy greenness and a balsamic touch of VA. The wine shows some density and sense of concentration, but the high acidity keeps the wine very fresh and light on its feet. The medium tannins feel quite ripe and mellow. The finish is dry, acid-driven and gently grippy with crunchy flavors of wild forest fruits, some tart lingonberries, a little bit of wild strawberries, light peppery tones and a hint of leafy greenness.
  
  A bright, fresh and lively Gamay not unlike a naturalist Cru Beaujolais - although this wine shows a curious combination of somewhat dark-toned ripeness of fruit, yet this vegetal leafy greenness that is at times bordering on underripeness. I don't know if the grapes have been maturing at different paces in different places, or if the Gamay grapes were just getting aromatically too ripe while being physiologically still underripe? There's lot of positive aspects here, but that vegetal leafy greenness slightly distracts me from the pleasure. Without that particular trait this might be the best 2018 Ochota Barrels wine I've tasted, but it certainly takes its toll.

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