2019 Anders Frederik Steen La Femme à qui?

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  6/4/2020 - forceberry wrote: 62 Points

  A pét-nat made from apple juice (50%) and organically farmed Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot (50%). Vinified and bottled without any fining, filtration or sulfites. 10,5% alcohol.
  
  Hazy, peachy reddish-orange color. Wild, sweet-toned and quite volatile nose with aromas of nail polish, rustic bretty funk, some apricot tones, a little bit of stony minerality and a hint of red apple. The wine is light-to-medium-bodied, fizzy and off-dry on the palate with a taste that reminds me very much of funky Normandy ciders. Flavors of bruised cider apple, bretty notes of leather and barnyard, some sweet volatile nail polish tones, a little bit of overripe pear and a hint of herbal bitterness. I have to admit it, this doesn't taste like wine. Quite high acidity. The finish starts off with an aftertaste of bruised apple and leathery funk, then turning to barnyardy notes of manure, before ending with a moderately pronounced streak of mousy THP. The wine leaves an enjoyably acid-driven yet very disagreeable taste of mousiness in the mouth.
  
  Ugh. A rather unpleasant effort. I'd rather drink funky farmhouse ciders of Normandy any day over this kind of mousy, semi-grape-based caricature of a cider. This tastes more of ideology than terroir. Not worth the 19€.

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