March 25, 2007
I have never been impressed with Artesa’s Pinot Noirs. I do expect a lot from Carneros but this has none of that familiar darker colour than most Pinots. This pinot was a bit too vitreous which was my first clue that flavour might be lacking in this bottle. All palettes were un-dynamic, fruit, structure were all very weak; there was a slight pepper and that was the only flavour I could distinguish. I keep trying Artesa to see if there might be a change in their wines.
¡Salud!
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March 25, 2007
This Tempranillo had a synth cork which is greatly disappointing. A tempranillo is good in spite of it’s wine makers. This being said is that tempranillo wine markers are still artisans and that a tempranillo is a hearty bold grape that it can usually stand on it’s own. Tempranillo is a brilliant grape and oh so Spanish. But this tempranillo had contact with the synth cork and it tainted the flavour; the initial palette promising and the mid and finish palettes superbly disappointing. I had hoped for the enveloping tempranillo prominence to play out; in this bottle it did not. I will reach out for another bottle to see how the other Biurko wine’s play out.
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