2020 Solminer Wines Blaufränkisch deLanda Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 85 points

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  7/9/2023 - WineAwayWhine wrote:

  This is the weirdest wine I buy every single year.
  
  There, I said it. If you like kombucha funky natural wines like I do, it may still be the weirdest wine you drink too.
  
  It is a red wine with TROPICAL fruit dominance. Think guava, Mango Passion fruit. Followed by blueberries, savory olive tepanade notes, leather, black pepper. Acid is M+ tannins are really low.
  
  It is that fine line that kombucha gets between enjoyable and rotten.
  
  All of that said, I really enjoy this wine each and every year that I have it, which happens to be each and every year.

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  3/23/2023 - Seafoam Manor wrote: 90 Points

  This is decidedly on the "natural" side of things, define that as you like, where it looks down the Kombucha aisle, but doesn't commit and make the turn. This is a mouthful of tartly acidic wild berries, with a deep underpinning of brambly, stemmy, sort of notes. Again, this brushes up against the sour Kombucha notes, but it reads as being highly acidic, rather than "is this flawed" territory. Not particularly tannic, with most of the structure coming from the acid, so this isn't something I would plan on aging. However, there's a pretty high concentration of flavor, so this still has a ton of life in it. There's a decidedly wild, funky, side to this, but it remains very fresh and lively, so I would love to try this with something like a venison tartare. This is definitely a love it or hate it sort of style.

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  9/16/2022 - Sid G wrote: 80 Points

  An unusual varietal to find in the USA, as it is generally found only in central Europe. This California version is something of a "fruit bomb" with intensely grapey flavors and lots of rough edged tannins. An interesting experiment and maybe with some more bottle age it will smooth out.

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