2018 Meinklang Pinot Gris Graupert

Community Tasting Notes (8) Median Score: 87 points

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  11/20/2022 - matt182 Does not like this wine: 60 Points

  Awfully bitter, unbalanced, some decent candied yellow/orange stewed fruit upfront, some acid. Not flawed but drink this type of wine on release, avoid keeping them.

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  8/28/2022 - Sergei&Marisa wrote: flawed

  Very very bitter. Not sure if it suppose to be like this. It helps if you decant it. The gas also makes it bitter, so removing the gas helps.
  Tastes like Campari. Needs strong food. So food with lots of taste.
  I:2/3/5/5=15
  S:2/3/5/5 =15

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  11/23/2020 - Wayne Hansen Likes this wine: 87 Points

  This has an odd sort of cork – can’t tell if it is plastic or real; it was a little difficult to get out of the bottle.
  
  Color is a cloudy, pale salmon orange with a touch of effervescence or spritz.
  
  Quite nice aroma which I cannot really figure out but can definitely enjoy; kind of a sappy, resinous apricot aroma, wet hay, dried flowers, some low-toned citrus notes … nicely fruity with sappy notes to give it lift.
  
  The entry has a sense of effervescence setting off an initial flavor of canned (not fresh) grapefruit juice and very savory in the mouth with spices, rusty metal and beef broth along with racy acidity and slightly sour cherry with an odd vegetal note along with soil, compost pile, wet leaves … quite an assault on the taste buds! But good! I’d say this is definitely an acquired taste, but it is recognizably in the same camp as the Fossil and Fawn “Sorta Summer” wine tasted back in March. This tastes extremely young, though there are no “off” components or “tanky” elements … I suspect this is not a wine to age. This definitely takes some getting used to! Leaves a slightly bitter, astringent aftertaste that bodes well for food. Also, my guess is that there are still some active yeast in the wine; it became considerably MORE cloudy on the second day.
  
  Speaking of which, this was a nice match with fresh swordfish cooked in a sauce of cherry tomatoes, garlic, red bell pepper, anchovies, olives and white wine, spiced with paprika and red chili flakes and a side dish of roasted sliced Fennel bulbs. Savory and spicy notes in the wine balance with those of the fish dish. Quite good! Not surprisingly, Sally HATED this wine, spitting it out after the first sip! The alternate wine with the dish was a Cabernet Franc which was also an excellent, though less interesting, match.

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  6/17/2020 - Elycohn Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Meinklang is one of my favorite producers anywhere and we finally scored most of their lineup for the first time I can remember in Austin. Like Foradori, Meinklang is a picturesque self-sustaining Demeter certified biodynamic and organic farm which happens to make insanely good wines.
  This is just about the prettiest shade of Pinot Grigio (aka Grauburgunder) I’ve ever seen.
  It’s expertly assembled - sour honeyed tangerine and apricot.
  Graupert is slang for a scruffy or wild soul - the Pinot gris is grown untrimmed, left to spread its vines wild.
  Captured a Meinklang sunset in my glass.

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  5/20/2020 - fverreauv wrote: flawed

  Some bottles were faulty?

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