2019 Envinate Benje

Community Tasting Notes (35) Avg Score: 90.1 points

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  4/17/2024 - Wine Canuck wrote: 92 Points

  This pours very light cloudy ruby in the glass with some pink and purple toward the watery rim. The nose on this is just incredible, opening over the course of a couple of hours to show white pepper, black pepper, wet soil, blooming roses, pomegranate, leather, turkish delight, and wet hay. The palate is bright, tart and red fruited with some saline character. Tannin is medium minus with high acid. The finish is a tad bitter and clipped, medium minus in length. The nose here is the highlight, expansive and complex, easily a 93+ point nose. The palate is light and elegant but turns just a bit too bitter without enough fruit to carry it, holding this back from a higher score.

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  11/15/2022 - Beerzebub Likes this wine:

  P&p; drinking well right away. Aromatic - crunchy red fruit with borderline funky forest floor/mushroom/earth, spice, and flowers. Similar flavors, juicy, crunchy cherry-cranberry sort of fruit with spicy earthy depth and plenty of acidity and fine-grained tannins, delicious. I'm liking this producer!

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  9/10/2022 - kingkanu wrote:

  This bottle needed a fair bit of air to see off the reduction, lovely fruit underneath that though

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  9/7/2022 - CamWheeler wrote: 90 Points

  SLDS September 2022: Blind. Stalks, pepper, tobacco and ash on the nose. Palate is lithe and has delicate fruit, a good acid kick and plenty of savoury spice. Lots going on but feels like it might be best drunk now in case any of the elements drop out of sync.

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  9/7/2022 - fizz wrote:

  Light garnet. A bit stinky at first- reduction, not faulty. Smoke, tart red fruit, pepper. Focused and light to medium weighted palate leads to an acid driven, slightly bitter finish. Food friendly though. Interesting when served blind…and especially when one of the group outrageously nails it. (Nicely done CW!).

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