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This has a slightly brown tinge to its pale-medium red colour.
The nose shows sweet fermenting vegetation (a bit like silage), VA, cherry, wood, perhaps some almond, and an animally presence (i.e., more an animal yard kind of sense rather than a shitty/Brett sense).
The palate is reasonably full and quite smooth, and its moderate astringency gives it good structural support. It has a great lively/lifted kind of acidity which the VA probably contributes to, flavours of autumn leaves and pure dry wood (i.e., not fungal, damp, sweet or vanillary orientated oak flavours, just simply aromatic woodiness).
It reminds me a bit of red Chateau Musar, but it’s “lighter” than that (I can understand why Otto likes it
. It has some fruit but I think it is more about funk and sweet farming-countryside flavours. It’s a wine full of character that continued to hold my interest throughout drinking it, and I found it incredibly easy to finish the bottle. Probably not for those who dislike funkier/VA-orientated styles, but for those that do I think this is absolutely fantastic! I love it, thanks Otto!