14,04€; 14,5%abv; 50yo vines; Eric Monnin - winemaker. Purple. Very sweet, almost jammy scent of strawberry upon opening. It becomes darker toned with time open and scents of tar, butterscotch oak and even some mint come to the fore. Full body, sweet and very ripe fruit, the tannins seem more like an afterthought than something integral to the wine, but it does have adequate (though not high) acidity to provide some balance to the enormous presence of fruit; strongly alcoholic. It is a decent example of Barossa Shiraz.
Domaine Depeyre Côtes du Roussillon Villages 2007
12,91€; 14,5% abv; 50% Syrah & 25% each of Grenache and Carignan. Purple. This started out jammy, but became more savoury and focused with time. The attractive dark fruit and pepper scents show a very strong Syrah character, but the sweetness and red fruit of the Grenache comes through as well. Full bodied, moderately strong tannins, lowish but sufficient acidity to support all the fruit. In all other ways it seems a very nice Southern wine except for the alcohol which is much too obvious even when at cellar temperature.
keskiviikko 28. tammikuuta 2009
Two from Languedoc-Roussillon
Dignité Vin de Pays d'Oc Syrah 2005 - France, Languedoc Roussillon, Vin de Pays d'Oc (1/20/2009)
lauantai 24. tammikuuta 2009
torstai 22. tammikuuta 2009
Two from Azul y Garanza
Azul y Garanza Navarra Rosa 2008
13,5% abv. With a steak of tuna in white wine, capers, cherry tomatoes and herbs (good match for a weighty rosé that still is light on its feet). Quite a deep pink. Strong scents of strawberry and minerals. Full bodied, sweet fruit, but with bright acidity and a strongly mineral finish. Very substantial and weighty for a rosé but also moreish and refreshing.
Azul y Garanza Navarra Viura 2008
Light gold. Mineral and grassy scent. Quite full bodied, good acidity and minerality, nutty though unoaked. A pleasant wine. This was perhaps a bit weighty for my chunk of salmon with lemon pasta (or then the food was just too acidic to handle anything else).
13,5% abv. With a steak of tuna in white wine, capers, cherry tomatoes and herbs (good match for a weighty rosé that still is light on its feet). Quite a deep pink. Strong scents of strawberry and minerals. Full bodied, sweet fruit, but with bright acidity and a strongly mineral finish. Very substantial and weighty for a rosé but also moreish and refreshing.
Azul y Garanza Navarra Viura 2008
Light gold. Mineral and grassy scent. Quite full bodied, good acidity and minerality, nutty though unoaked. A pleasant wine. This was perhaps a bit weighty for my chunk of salmon with lemon pasta (or then the food was just too acidic to handle anything else).
maanantai 19. tammikuuta 2009
Various Bordeaux 1953-1990
Tonight we had a very interesting tasting of mature and matureish Bordeaux.
We started with a Hugel Riesling Vendage Tardive 1989 (14% abv; 25g/l RS; 6,4g/l acidity) which was much nicer than a previous bottle I had tried. The earlier bottle had had nice and pure Riesling aromas but was a bit flabby. This bottle, however, seemed to have much higher acidity: though obviously from a warm year, it was refreshing and moreish. It wasn't terribly petrolly but did have a purity of Rieslingness that was very charming. A very satisfying bottle and one that has a long life ahead.
Then we had our main line-up, for once not blind!
Château Beychevelle 1953 St.-Julien
Sadly this was utterly dead. On the merchant's web site the level was promised as much higher than this bottle's low shoulder.
Château L'Évangile 1964 Pomerol
This was a truly lovely old wine. It seemed like quintessential aged Pomerol to me with its plummy, elegant and dark fruit and perhaps even a touch of funk. With air, the fruit became brighter and showed more red berry aromas. It has aged very gracefully and still shows some dark fruit, but the structure is fully resolved. Persistent and refreshing aftertaste. To me, an ideal moment to drink it.
Château Lascombes 1975 Margaux
This has a powerful aroma of strawberry and was very sweet and red toned (and perhaps had a touch of VA, too). It developed some clay and liquorice scents with time. Tannic, sweet and strawberried, quite high acidity. Though Lascombes was supposedly in a bad phase at this time, I didn't think this was a bad wine at all. And though 1975 has the reputation for tannins overwhelming the fruit, I found this to be balanced. My one criticism of this otherwise charming wine was that it was a bit one dimensional in this company.
Château Nenin 1975 Pomerol
This was really a treat! Like with the L'Evangile, I thought this to be an archetype of Pomerol. A bit loamy, plummy, dark but sweet and expressive fruit. Elegant but pleasantly structured palate but the fruit is more to the fore (once again, no sign of those '75 overwhelming tannins). Long and refreshing and moreish. Lovely!
Château Pichon-Baron 1989 Pauillac
Very, very sweet scent, cassis rather than blackberry leaves, still some oak present and it even has some banana scents. Full bodied, sweet, very ripe and so soft that I wondered if they spoofulated already in the late '80s. Frankly quite anonymous and lacking in personality in this company.
Château Lynch-Bages 1989 Pauillac
This was quite a lovely wine. Though the fruit showed that it was obviously from a warm year, it wasn't over-ripe to my tastes. Once it started to open up (it was still a youngster) it showed as a classic Pauillac with its earthy and slightly herbaceous notes but that classic style was coupled to sweeter than usual fruit (which, for once, I didn't mind at all!). Lovely!
Château Pichon-Lalande 1990 Pauillac
A really lovely, classic Pauillac scent: herbaceous, blackcurrant leaves, dark fruit, elegant and cedary rather than overtly fruity. Lighter than the the two '89s preceding it (and none the worse for it), but with good structure and fruit. Very refreshing and moreish. Lovely!
Practically all critics bash this wine and say it is too green and thin. I have had it only a couple times but it has always seemed like a very classically proportioned wine to me - which is amazing, since it was the product of such a hot vintage. I tend to prefer classical proportions to silicon implants, so I won't complain when this is served to me.
Château Branaire-Ducru 1990 Margaux
Dark and over-ripe to my nostrils. It had too much blueberry and fat. It did turn a bit leafy with time, but it still seemed to lack the grace of Grecian statues. Full bodied and sweet, dark toned fruit, very concentrated and oddly enough highish acidity. A bit of a brute. I imagine I might be more forgiving if it was the only wine on the table, but with such a plethora of riches beside it, I feel a bit disappointed.
We started with a Hugel Riesling Vendage Tardive 1989 (14% abv; 25g/l RS; 6,4g/l acidity) which was much nicer than a previous bottle I had tried. The earlier bottle had had nice and pure Riesling aromas but was a bit flabby. This bottle, however, seemed to have much higher acidity: though obviously from a warm year, it was refreshing and moreish. It wasn't terribly petrolly but did have a purity of Rieslingness that was very charming. A very satisfying bottle and one that has a long life ahead.
Then we had our main line-up, for once not blind!
Château Beychevelle 1953 St.-Julien
Sadly this was utterly dead. On the merchant's web site the level was promised as much higher than this bottle's low shoulder.
Château L'Évangile 1964 Pomerol
This was a truly lovely old wine. It seemed like quintessential aged Pomerol to me with its plummy, elegant and dark fruit and perhaps even a touch of funk. With air, the fruit became brighter and showed more red berry aromas. It has aged very gracefully and still shows some dark fruit, but the structure is fully resolved. Persistent and refreshing aftertaste. To me, an ideal moment to drink it.
Château Lascombes 1975 Margaux
This has a powerful aroma of strawberry and was very sweet and red toned (and perhaps had a touch of VA, too). It developed some clay and liquorice scents with time. Tannic, sweet and strawberried, quite high acidity. Though Lascombes was supposedly in a bad phase at this time, I didn't think this was a bad wine at all. And though 1975 has the reputation for tannins overwhelming the fruit, I found this to be balanced. My one criticism of this otherwise charming wine was that it was a bit one dimensional in this company.
Château Nenin 1975 Pomerol
This was really a treat! Like with the L'Evangile, I thought this to be an archetype of Pomerol. A bit loamy, plummy, dark but sweet and expressive fruit. Elegant but pleasantly structured palate but the fruit is more to the fore (once again, no sign of those '75 overwhelming tannins). Long and refreshing and moreish. Lovely!
Château Pichon-Baron 1989 Pauillac
Very, very sweet scent, cassis rather than blackberry leaves, still some oak present and it even has some banana scents. Full bodied, sweet, very ripe and so soft that I wondered if they spoofulated already in the late '80s. Frankly quite anonymous and lacking in personality in this company.
Château Lynch-Bages 1989 Pauillac
This was quite a lovely wine. Though the fruit showed that it was obviously from a warm year, it wasn't over-ripe to my tastes. Once it started to open up (it was still a youngster) it showed as a classic Pauillac with its earthy and slightly herbaceous notes but that classic style was coupled to sweeter than usual fruit (which, for once, I didn't mind at all!). Lovely!
Château Pichon-Lalande 1990 Pauillac
A really lovely, classic Pauillac scent: herbaceous, blackcurrant leaves, dark fruit, elegant and cedary rather than overtly fruity. Lighter than the the two '89s preceding it (and none the worse for it), but with good structure and fruit. Very refreshing and moreish. Lovely!
Practically all critics bash this wine and say it is too green and thin. I have had it only a couple times but it has always seemed like a very classically proportioned wine to me - which is amazing, since it was the product of such a hot vintage. I tend to prefer classical proportions to silicon implants, so I won't complain when this is served to me.
Château Branaire-Ducru 1990 Margaux
Dark and over-ripe to my nostrils. It had too much blueberry and fat. It did turn a bit leafy with time, but it still seemed to lack the grace of Grecian statues. Full bodied and sweet, dark toned fruit, very concentrated and oddly enough highish acidity. A bit of a brute. I imagine I might be more forgiving if it was the only wine on the table, but with such a plethora of riches beside it, I feel a bit disappointed.
maanantai 12. tammikuuta 2009
A truly wonderful Sancerre from Dezat
I have throughout my vinous life found such statements as my title oxymoronic. Sauvignon Blanc, even in the Loire, has been a grape I have had enormous difficulties with - yet I don't know why! Since I like high acidity, green fruit notes and minerality, why haven't I enjoyed Sauvignon Blanc? The only exception available in Finland has been Dezat, of which I have enjoyed almost every vintage that has been imported. I recently reported on the lovely Pouilly-Fumé and today I had the Sancerre 2007.
Tonight's dinner wasn't as good a match as the Common Whitefish in beurre blanc with the Pouilly-Fumé. I prepared some tilapia in a Swahili-inspired tomato sauce. Tomatoes are notoriously difficult with wines (I find it makes them all taste metallic), yet this Sancerre stood up amazingly well: not a great match in that the food and wine didn't support each other; but not catastrophic since it was enjoyable and not too metallic.
André Dezat Sancerre 2007 24,90€; 12,5% abv
Light as water. A lovely, mineral scent, very citrussy; elegant rather than obvious. Good body, ripe fruit, lots of citrussy acidity, strongly mineral, complex even. Interminable aftertaste. Quite lovely!
Tonight's dinner wasn't as good a match as the Common Whitefish in beurre blanc with the Pouilly-Fumé. I prepared some tilapia in a Swahili-inspired tomato sauce. Tomatoes are notoriously difficult with wines (I find it makes them all taste metallic), yet this Sancerre stood up amazingly well: not a great match in that the food and wine didn't support each other; but not catastrophic since it was enjoyable and not too metallic.
André Dezat Sancerre 2007 24,90€; 12,5% abv
Light as water. A lovely, mineral scent, very citrussy; elegant rather than obvious. Good body, ripe fruit, lots of citrussy acidity, strongly mineral, complex even. Interminable aftertaste. Quite lovely!
perjantai 9. tammikuuta 2009
CVNE Imperial Reserva 1994
Compañia Vinícola del Norte de España Imperial Reserva 1994 13% abv; 64,90€ (ouch!)
I did a brief search online for notes on this wine. They all either damned it with faint praise or simply damned it. I am becoming quite convinced that I like bad wine since I very much enjoyed my glass!
The wine does a sine-curve-like trajectory between a sweet, ripe strawberried scent and a stern, lingonberry-like bright red aroma. The oak is just a madeleine; an epsilon, a small positive infinitesimal quantity. It is loamy and vegetal and has a touch of funk, too, which is nice.
It is quite full bodied with sweet fruit, quite warm year in character with lower acidity than I would have hoped from an old style Rioja. But it isn't flabby and does retain some brightness. Where I most miss the acidity is on the finish where it just doesn't carry the fruit so it ends up lacking a bit in the brightness that some sniffs promised. So not the best Rioja that I've had, but far better than what I read. To my tastes, this is in a very nice spot now (it had been open two hours when I tried it) and I imagine it will keep well.
I did a brief search online for notes on this wine. They all either damned it with faint praise or simply damned it. I am becoming quite convinced that I like bad wine since I very much enjoyed my glass!
The wine does a sine-curve-like trajectory between a sweet, ripe strawberried scent and a stern, lingonberry-like bright red aroma. The oak is just a madeleine; an epsilon, a small positive infinitesimal quantity. It is loamy and vegetal and has a touch of funk, too, which is nice.
It is quite full bodied with sweet fruit, quite warm year in character with lower acidity than I would have hoped from an old style Rioja. But it isn't flabby and does retain some brightness. Where I most miss the acidity is on the finish where it just doesn't carry the fruit so it ends up lacking a bit in the brightness that some sniffs promised. So not the best Rioja that I've had, but far better than what I read. To my tastes, this is in a very nice spot now (it had been open two hours when I tried it) and I imagine it will keep well.
tiistai 6. tammikuuta 2009
Dezat Pouilly-Fumé and Guntrum Oppenheimer Sackträger Gewürztraminer
Some Coregonus lavaretus (Common Whitefish) with a beurre blanc sauce was a nice dinner with the Dezat.
André Dezat Pouilly-Fumé Domaine Thibault 2007
24,90€; 12,5% abv. Very pale. The nose is quite charming: elegantly green aromas, but not underripe or aggressive, strongly mineral. Tremendous citrussy zip and energy, very youthful and lively, substantial yet light. It is strongly mineral on the finish. I enjoyed it tremendously.
Louis Guntrum Oppenheimer Sackträger Gewürztraminer Auslese 1993 - Rheinhessen
André Dezat Pouilly-Fumé Domaine Thibault 2007
24,90€; 12,5% abv. Very pale. The nose is quite charming: elegantly green aromas, but not underripe or aggressive, strongly mineral. Tremendous citrussy zip and energy, very youthful and lively, substantial yet light. It is strongly mineral on the finish. I enjoyed it tremendously.
Louis Guntrum Oppenheimer Sackträger Gewürztraminer Auslese 1993 - Rheinhessen
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15,06€/0,375; 11% abv; 45g/l RS; 7,5g/l acidity; A.P. 4 382 083 29 96. Auburn. A slightly singed, old nose with seemingly quite a bit of botrytis (citrus peel), crystallized fruit and copper: it is more of aged aromas than fresh fruit but there is a touch of dried rose leaves, too. It is drying up and doesn't taste as sweet as I would have imagined from the technical sheet. But it has a refreshing acidity and still has aged fruit in it so for me it is drinking beautifully (some will no doubt find this too old). Delightfully autumnal.
sunnuntai 4. tammikuuta 2009
Blind tasting: Tignanello mostly + Breuer and Frank Cornelissen
For our blind starter we had a lovely, rare wine from the Orléans-grape:
Georg Breuer Rüdesheim Orléans 2002 - Germany, Rheingau
Bottle #169/400; from reputedly 200yo vines! - could it really be so? A very pure and elegant scent, very mineral and citrussy. Concentrated but very elegant, pure, ripe and sweet fruit but I would imagine quite low in RS; pétillant and vibrant and very, very lively. I thought this was a fantastic wine.
Then we had the main flight. All I knew was it was Tuscans and the maximum Parker points were 93 (strange info given...) - which was alarmingly high considering our tastes!
Antinori Tignanello Toscana IGT 2000
Blind. Seemingly the most advanced wine of the evening with plenty of sous-bois, tobacco, dark cherry and also some brighter red fruit notes. Very full bodied, sweet even, but with a pleasant kick of acidity providing brightness on the finish. Strangely advanced, yet the maturity was also much of the appeal. Nice.
Antinori Tignanello Toscana IGT 1998
Corked.
Antinori Tignanello Toscana IGT 2004
Blind. Oaky and lactic, dark fruit, very sweet and open, but not showing much Sangiovese character despite some sandalwood. Full bodied, very sweet and oaky, but with a lovely tannic and acidic brightness to counter the sweetness. I think it might turn out ok once the oak and fruit start to fade.
Antinori Tignanello Toscana IGT 2003
Blind. A very sweet and red scent: strawberry jam. The palate was full bodied and flabby. Not as catastrophic as many other 2003s but not really to my taste.
Antinori Tignanello Toscana IGT 1999
Blind. This might have been my favourite of the tasting. This and the '97 where the only ones that to me showed obvious Sangiovese aromatics. Bright, red cherry aromas, sandalwood, pure even having lost the overt oak that younger Tignanellos seem to have. Very full bodied and sweet in fruit, but lively, quite high in acid, still refreshing tannins - it was actually very moreish. Nice!
Cosimo Maria Masini Nicolo Maremma Toscana IGT 2004
Cabernet Sauvignon. Blind. It fit right in with the Tignanello theme and was therefore a perfect ringer. Dark fruit but pleasantly lifted, seemed quite oaky (though when revealed we were told it sees only used wood!), sweet. Full body, very sweet, good upright tannins and acidity but the whole seemed quite oak forward and darker toned in fruit than I prefer.
Antinori Tignanello Toscana IGT 1997
Blind. Alongside the '99 this was my favourite of the tasting as it showed an obvious Sangiovese character of bright, red fruit and sandalwood. So it might be a bit sweeter than my Platonic ideal of the grape but it had good structure from both refreshing tannins and bright acidity and frankly most aspects of the wine didn't seem like they would come from such a warm year. Refreshing and moreish despite the sweet fruit. Nice!
Antinori Tignanello Toscana IGT 2001
Blind. So different from the other wines of the evening that we were all sure this was the ringer. A dark toned scent, heavy handed oak, inky and unrefreshing scent. Full bodied palate, flat and sorely lacking in liveliness despite there being seemingly good levels of acidity. More obviously "modern" in style than the other Tignanellos.
Finally we had a blind cleaning-up wine, which alongside the lovely Orléans was my favourite wine of the evening (perhaps not a surprise to anyone):
Frank Cornelissen Etna contadino 5 2007 - Italy, Sicily, Etna DOC
Blind: What a lovely wine! Very sweet, red fruit aromas and plenty of earthiness - it reminded me of Spätburgunder but was much better than any Spätburgunder that I have ever had. So lively and energetic that it must be "natural wine", sweet but immensely refreshing, bright and extremely moreish. Lovely stuff!
Georg Breuer Rüdesheim Orléans 2002 - Germany, Rheingau
Bottle #169/400; from reputedly 200yo vines! - could it really be so? A very pure and elegant scent, very mineral and citrussy. Concentrated but very elegant, pure, ripe and sweet fruit but I would imagine quite low in RS; pétillant and vibrant and very, very lively. I thought this was a fantastic wine.
Then we had the main flight. All I knew was it was Tuscans and the maximum Parker points were 93 (strange info given...) - which was alarmingly high considering our tastes!
Antinori Tignanello Toscana IGT 2000
Blind. Seemingly the most advanced wine of the evening with plenty of sous-bois, tobacco, dark cherry and also some brighter red fruit notes. Very full bodied, sweet even, but with a pleasant kick of acidity providing brightness on the finish. Strangely advanced, yet the maturity was also much of the appeal. Nice.
Antinori Tignanello Toscana IGT 1998
Corked.
Antinori Tignanello Toscana IGT 2004
Blind. Oaky and lactic, dark fruit, very sweet and open, but not showing much Sangiovese character despite some sandalwood. Full bodied, very sweet and oaky, but with a lovely tannic and acidic brightness to counter the sweetness. I think it might turn out ok once the oak and fruit start to fade.
Antinori Tignanello Toscana IGT 2003
Blind. A very sweet and red scent: strawberry jam. The palate was full bodied and flabby. Not as catastrophic as many other 2003s but not really to my taste.
Antinori Tignanello Toscana IGT 1999
Blind. This might have been my favourite of the tasting. This and the '97 where the only ones that to me showed obvious Sangiovese aromatics. Bright, red cherry aromas, sandalwood, pure even having lost the overt oak that younger Tignanellos seem to have. Very full bodied and sweet in fruit, but lively, quite high in acid, still refreshing tannins - it was actually very moreish. Nice!
Cosimo Maria Masini Nicolo Maremma Toscana IGT 2004
Cabernet Sauvignon. Blind. It fit right in with the Tignanello theme and was therefore a perfect ringer. Dark fruit but pleasantly lifted, seemed quite oaky (though when revealed we were told it sees only used wood!), sweet. Full body, very sweet, good upright tannins and acidity but the whole seemed quite oak forward and darker toned in fruit than I prefer.
Antinori Tignanello Toscana IGT 1997
Blind. Alongside the '99 this was my favourite of the tasting as it showed an obvious Sangiovese character of bright, red fruit and sandalwood. So it might be a bit sweeter than my Platonic ideal of the grape but it had good structure from both refreshing tannins and bright acidity and frankly most aspects of the wine didn't seem like they would come from such a warm year. Refreshing and moreish despite the sweet fruit. Nice!
Antinori Tignanello Toscana IGT 2001
Blind. So different from the other wines of the evening that we were all sure this was the ringer. A dark toned scent, heavy handed oak, inky and unrefreshing scent. Full bodied palate, flat and sorely lacking in liveliness despite there being seemingly good levels of acidity. More obviously "modern" in style than the other Tignanellos.
Finally we had a blind cleaning-up wine, which alongside the lovely Orléans was my favourite wine of the evening (perhaps not a surprise to anyone):
Frank Cornelissen Etna contadino 5 2007 - Italy, Sicily, Etna DOC
Blind: What a lovely wine! Very sweet, red fruit aromas and plenty of earthiness - it reminded me of Spätburgunder but was much better than any Spätburgunder that I have ever had. So lively and energetic that it must be "natural wine", sweet but immensely refreshing, bright and extremely moreish. Lovely stuff!
lauantai 3. tammikuuta 2009
New Year's sparklers
N.V. Bisol Prosecco di Valdobbiadene Brut Desiderio Jeio - Italy, Veneto, Prosecco di Valdobbiadene
A fun wine. Mineral, pear scent, perhaps a slight hint of banana, too, that I hadn't noticed in previous releases. Dry, good acidity but fun fruit too. Nothing profound, but fun.
N.V. Couly-Dutheil Brut de Franc - France, Loire Valley
16,29€; 12,5% abv; 9g/l RS; 5,9g/l acidity. Gold. An attractive scent, full of red fruit, a bit spicy and vegetal, but mostly promising wide and copious fruit. And the promise was met: fine mousse, broad fruit, decent acidity but it does seem quite heavy and full bodied - perhaps a bit too much dosage. After the heavy palate, the refreshingly mineral aftertaste is a pleasant surprise. Nice, but not perhaps my ideal style of sparkler.
N.V. Couly-Dutheil Brut de Franc Rosé - France, Loire Valley
16,29€; 12,5% abv; 10g/l RS; 5,5g/l acidity. Deeper side of salmon pink. Though there is more sugar and less acidity than the white Brut de Franc, it tastes exactly the opposite! This has lovely, leafy aromatics, with some strawberry notes and quite a bit of minerality. Good body, but not as weighty as the white BdFranc. Oddly enough, it even tastes drier than the white and has brighter acidity. Mineral and elegantly spicy finish. Very enjoyable.
N.V. Domaine du Landreau Crémant de Loire - France, Loire Valley, Crémant de Loire
Light salmon pink. A leafy, earthy scent, mineral. Elegant mousse. Nice red fruit, leafy and herbaceous, elegant and pleasantly fruity - nothing overbearing about this. Fun sparkling; elegant.
A fun wine. Mineral, pear scent, perhaps a slight hint of banana, too, that I hadn't noticed in previous releases. Dry, good acidity but fun fruit too. Nothing profound, but fun.
N.V. Couly-Dutheil Brut de Franc - France, Loire Valley
16,29€; 12,5% abv; 9g/l RS; 5,9g/l acidity. Gold. An attractive scent, full of red fruit, a bit spicy and vegetal, but mostly promising wide and copious fruit. And the promise was met: fine mousse, broad fruit, decent acidity but it does seem quite heavy and full bodied - perhaps a bit too much dosage. After the heavy palate, the refreshingly mineral aftertaste is a pleasant surprise. Nice, but not perhaps my ideal style of sparkler.
N.V. Couly-Dutheil Brut de Franc Rosé - France, Loire Valley
16,29€; 12,5% abv; 10g/l RS; 5,5g/l acidity. Deeper side of salmon pink. Though there is more sugar and less acidity than the white Brut de Franc, it tastes exactly the opposite! This has lovely, leafy aromatics, with some strawberry notes and quite a bit of minerality. Good body, but not as weighty as the white BdFranc. Oddly enough, it even tastes drier than the white and has brighter acidity. Mineral and elegantly spicy finish. Very enjoyable.
N.V. Domaine du Landreau Crémant de Loire - France, Loire Valley, Crémant de Loire
Light salmon pink. A leafy, earthy scent, mineral. Elegant mousse. Nice red fruit, leafy and herbaceous, elegant and pleasantly fruity - nothing overbearing about this. Fun sparkling; elegant.
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