2021 Extradimensional Wine Co. Yeah! Go Rick Red!

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 93.5 points

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  7/16/2023 - ohne_musik wrote: 94 Points

  Another knockout stunner from Hardy. Pure Exuberance in liquid form. Pretty nose of macerated red fruit, subtle, and just a glimpse of the flavor that bursts onto the palate. Vibrant (as David says), thrilling acid married to crunchy red fruit, a hint of blackberry jam, dusky plums, and a refreshing bundle of soft herbs. Fleet footed, wiry framed, and Burgundian in texture and transparency of flavors, if the flavor is definitely in the camp of zin and mourvedre. The mid palate doesn’t have quite the depth to send it to the stratosphere, but it’s a heck of a wine as is!! Glad to have a couple more.

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  5/26/2023 - Rieslingfan wrote:

  Pop and pour, as it was a game time replacement for another wine. Usually the WineCo wines need a lot of air, but this was bringing the sunshine from the first moment. The word that kept running through my head was vibrant. The red fruit was vibrant. The herbal edge tones were vibrant. The finish was juicy and vibrant. Each and every sip the wine jumped up and said “Hi!” What a fantastic way to finish the week.

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  5/22/2023 - adnorthup wrote:

  watermelon, raspberry, cherry, acid. Fresh, light, delicious, pure Hardy.

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  4/29/2023 - JJYoyo Likes this wine: 93 Points

  <1/2 hour decant. My first EWCY! experience. Had no idea what to expect. Very pronounced strawberry on the nose. Extreme freshness and great lift - this is like being 20 years old again. Exuberance also means less depth: like life itself, you can’t have both at the same time. But you feel the winemaker’s choice and I love it.
  
  (And for precision’s sake, allow me to distinguish between complexity and depth. There is an astonishing complexity to this wine, lots of pyrotechnic sensations. But there is a difference between complexity and depth, as there is a tension between exuberance and joy, understood only later in life. An artist must choose, and a choice has been made here. I don’t criticize the choice, I admire and recognize it.)
  
  A comparison: one of my favorite singers is Elizabeth Fraser. Her voice is unique, ethereal and haunting. It is not the technical equivalent of a great operatic voice like, say, Renee Fleming or Kiri te Kanawa. But they are voices I admire, whereas my angel Liz has a voice you fall in love with. So it is with my first Extradimensional wine, tonight up against a Chateau Lafleur and a Vice Versa Spinning Plates: it’s the wine you decide to love.
  
  Bottom line: I am fricken delighted to have a flight of EWCO! Wines and look forward to a wild ride on all of them!
  Score: 93. Relative to expectations: +++ yeah!

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