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Dirty & Rowdy 2014 Yountville Semillon, Skin and Concrete Egg Fermented. This doesn't show as much skin-contact influence as I'd expected: light straw color, nice fresh aromatics. But as it warms up in the glass, I find that I like it less and less: there's a less-than-pleasant vegetality and a light burnt-spice note that comes out with time, and the balance goes a little haywire too, with a lot of weight shifting to the back end of the wine. Might have been the bottle, might have been my mood, but on the basis of one sample of each, I far prefer the "good ol' direct-to-press" version.

I'm with you on this one. I liked the freshness of the regular semillon compared to the confusion I found in this one.

"Confusion" is the perfect word.

[David M. Bueker]

"Confusion" is the perfect word.

Almost sounds like an epitaph.