Tasting notes

Color: dark purple

Nose: fairly basic red fruit on the nose at first opening, had a glass and recorked after about an hour. After about 24 hours it opened really nicely into butterscotch and caramel with fruit in the background.

Taste: on opening it was very high tannin, full bodied and dry with some dark fruit notes and clove and spice. 24 hours later the tannins had mellowed, notes of cherry and spice, toasted almond, maybe some minerality, with a longer finish than earlier.

Overall found it very interesting experience with a new varietal and region I haven’t tried and also a lesson in being patient sometimes with high tannin wines, found it much more enjoyable the next day. On the back it says it’s “Francis Mallmann’s preferred Tannat”, for what that’s worth.