Tried this w/ Susan last night:
1. Pivnica Cajkov Princess Rustical Pesecka Leanka (11%-14%; BlackLambWine/Oakland; www.BlackLambWine.com; 4-10 days maceration) Marek Uhnak/Pivnicajkov/Slovakia) 2022:Light golden brown very hazy color w/ lots of tiny bubbles; quite natty/funky/unclean very earthy/some loamy/dusty slight honeyed/resiny no fruit very unpleasant nose; very sour quite natty/unclean/very funky slight honeyed/earthy/loamy rather bitter off-dry unpleasant flavor; med.long quite sour very natty/unclean finish that tracks flavor; a natural wine at its unpleasant/natty worst; absolutely no redeeming features; some obvious limited skin contact. Overnight in the opened btl, it lost much of its natty/funky character and showed lots of honey graham/VM/skin-contact character but still a pretty unattractive wine. $41.00 (SFW&S)
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More gittlesnort from TheBloodyPulpit:
1. This was a new wine that showed up at Susan's this last week. It was from PMWines/Taos, so I knew it was a natural wine & not likely to be good. I was attracted to try it because I seldom encounter a Slovak wine and it was one of the ugliest labels I had done did seen. I'm always suspicious of wine labels that have so many consonants in the label.
Leanka is a white grape grown a lot in Hungary, but its origins are from Transylvania/Romania.
BlackLamb is an importer I seldom see about. They have a very interesting portfolio of wines from the Balkans.
They appear to specialize in Natural wines.I would like to try more of their odd wines.
Tom