Adam Kincaid
Seven years and delicious with quite a bit of life left in it. 2016 could easily drink to 2024 or 2025 if stored correctly. Light straw colored. Has a toasted scent, a bit of vanilla, similar to a brut. More like the crust of well buttered toast. Ok, enough of analyzing that… The first thing you’ll notice when you taste is the salinity, super strong, followed by strong minerality and crisp green tart apples. It’s a lingering wine, not a casual sipper. I bet it would be great with some food. Medium bodied, high acid, makes your tongue push against the top of your mouth. I know it’s an Ouillé style, but I think there is some oxidation going on. Not much, but it’s there. Love it.
Seven years and delicious with quite a bit of life left in it. 2016 could easily drink to 2024 or 2025 if stored correctly. Light straw colored. Has a toasted scent, a bit of vanilla, similar to a brut. More like the crust of well buttered toast. Ok, enough of analyzing that… The first thing you’ll notice when you taste is the salinity, super strong, followed by strong minerality and crisp green tart apples. It’s a lingering wine, not a casual sipper. I bet it would be great with some food. Medium bodied, high acid, makes your tongue push against the top of your mouth. I know it’s an Ouillé style, but I think there is some oxidation going on. Not much, but it’s there. Love it.
9.1Vinny Eng
More salinity than I expected but a solid food wine
More salinity than I expected but a solid food wine
8.9Barberry Garden
Complex and multilayered Savagning in a clean (e.g. no flor) style. Ouillé! Fried sunflower seeds, lemon peel, sesame, honey, used leaves of aged Bái Mǔ Dān. And what an incredible acidity despite its age. Almost perfect balance, long aftertaste, vigorous and flavourful. Great wine, yet hard to appreciate on a blind tasting. Something I would love to buy and taste again in five or ten years. Tasted as part of Mixed Bag Vol. 1.
Complex and multilayered Savagning in a clean (e.g. no flor) style. Ouillé! Fried sunflower seeds, lemon peel, sesame, honey, used leaves of aged Bái Mǔ Dān. And what an incredible acidity despite its age. Almost perfect balance, long aftertaste, vigorous and flavourful. Great wine, yet hard to appreciate on a blind tasting. Something I would love to buy and taste again in five or ten years. Tasted as part of Mixed Bag Vol. 1.
9.2Matt Ragan
Great acid but creamy. Kerosene, wild flowers, ripe stone fruit. Killer. Drinks like 1er Cru Burgundy.
Great acid but creamy. Kerosene, wild flowers, ripe stone fruit. Killer. Drinks like 1er Cru Burgundy.
9.2Steve Cunneen
After initial funk blew off I really enjoyed this. Very clean lemony, citrusy nose and a ton of acid in the mouth. Malo for sure but still refreshing. Paired with roasted Halibut and shrimp and pea risotto.
After initial funk blew off I really enjoyed this. Very clean lemony, citrusy nose and a ton of acid in the mouth. Malo for sure but still refreshing. Paired with roasted Halibut and shrimp and pea risotto.
9.1Iwan
Lemon drops and salinity. Yummy
Lemon drops and salinity. Yummy
9.0Hanibal
A perfect marriage....wine has nice acidity and great nose with nuts oak and some spices. Long aftertaste...
A perfect marriage....wine has nice acidity and great nose with nuts oak and some spices. Long aftertaste...
9.2Sylvain Rhainds
2016! J’adore!
2016! J’adore!
9.3Mike Hartz
So good we bought a case, bright and balanced Pinot - young but still perfect
So good we bought a case, bright and balanced Pinot - young but still perfect
9.2Joakim Bogström
Fresh acidity, green apple and melon notes. But not too aromatic. No oakyness. Pairs well with springcod maki roll.
Fresh acidity, green apple and melon notes. But not too aromatic. No oakyness. Pairs well with springcod maki roll.
8.6WARNING: DRINKING DISTILLED SPIRITS, BEER, COOLERS, WINE AND OTHER ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES MAY INCREASE CANCER RISK, AND, DURING PREGNANCY, CAN CAUSE BIRTH DEFECTS.