Glaring off with the Eagles stern dead lifeless eyes, a duel is set. A veteran wino bellowing laughs of triumph over naught but a flabby hollow and over branded grape. Well that’s how this scene was set in my head, yet, god knows the world loves an underdog. By god was the earth good to this one. In my wine journey I had encountered one Pinot Grigio, which had turned heads, mine included, now this was an ever interesting thought and I felt that the review at hand might not see the light of empty, and another wine might fail to have merit found in it.
 |
| RRP €9.99 |
If I take a moment to demystify myself, I felt that pop of the cork was to signal nothing but disappointment and failure, from the king of poor performance, pinot Grigio, the favourite of the tasteless, unadventurous and the plain out right buffoon.However, something happened, the pistol like pop beckoned peach to the nose, soft and elegant, pear like minerality followed to freshen things up and with a tilt of the glass the plain white paper filled with gold. All of a sudden the dark empty eyes of the hawk lit and glinted with a vengeance of which offered up something mix between a flamboyant burl of deserved arrogance and a certain glare which offer me again to the challenge.
The hawk and I blinked to break the contest of wills allowing me a nose cleaning breath of air, and rallied myself for the counter attack, merely passing f the first engagement as a fluke of the freshness of the wine but, no, I was wrong, what we had here was a winemaker that like braking prejudice, ignorance and snobbery which I think must prevail like any wind once in a while.
Minerality flowed and conquered me, as the hawks blink had only offer it time to calculate the thoughts I had squabbled together after my initial trashing from the wine. Offering more, this time in the form of a crusted apple, almost that of an apple tart. The interesting thing here was what was happening with the peach, it solidified and offered up a picture so clear and distinct of the soft flesh of a fresh peach daring to be tasted. The daring temptation won over in the end, and I tasted what can only be described as a good wine defying the pinot Grigio pinch faced followers palate and offered something more, mild complexity, an ability to in some small way develop to a degree. Now if this was a chardonnay, or a Riesling this would be poor but it wasn’t it was what I regard as the door mat to the cattle shed of grape varieties, as I have mentioned the words boring flat and empty spring to mind. The palate veers towards the marks of faint melon and elderberry, now; it fails to distinctly gain these traits, but however it is an amazing expression of a grape. And something I enjoyed. Rather more as the wine struggled to break from my iron glare with tastes of bitter lemon. Truly the most complicated Pinot Grigio I have tried, and one of the most palatable wines, I have experienced; not the mind blowing Riesling or the elegant smooth crisp Charonnday sans oak nor the big monster of the chardonnay avec oak, but pinot Grigio, plain and simple, but friendly and definitely one for the hardcore wino to tip into as a good reminder about what wine is about; an art of expression.
Low Alcohol makes for light evening sip
With our new scores the wine hits a healthy; C+/B-, which means the wine at around €10, is the perfect party wine, light in alcohol and friendly but just a big enough neck turner for the one wino at the do!
Won’t suit a wine gig with big complicated wines that will unfairly over shadow the wine.
To avoid seeming lovely praise filled I’d add that the wine can feel slightly hallow at points during the exchange of fruit, and it’s finish is rather poor but as noted its 100% a party wine.
Enjoy!
Rob.
No comments:
Post a Comment