Love their red wine & this £65 white is quite unique showing the unique terroir of this region 👍
🍇 80% Sauv Blanc & 20% Semillon
🍷 Golden yellow straw
👃 Smokey melon butter, smashed flint rock, charred orange zest, coal & burnt ash w/ dried pineapple, apple, citrus, banana & refined oil - quite unusual
👄 Med+ body of creamy flinty mineral & ash driven light tropical, young green fruit & citrus in med acidity
🎯 Long, touch dry, ash, flinty mineral & soft tropics, fine citrus & green fruit finale — 8 years ago
Extremely smokey, strong, intense. Literally drinking a coal water. But I liked it. :) — 9 years ago
Good Riesling, reminds me of Tasmanian coal river valley wines . Nice texture and fruit — 10 years ago
This Tasmanian winery make four different Rieslings based on different residual sugar levels. — 10 years ago
Classic stout without any cloying sweetness. I totally deserve this lump of coal — 12 years ago
Medium crimson in colour. Notes of savoury oak - a trifle overdone but not unpleasant. A blend of fruit from several of Tassies Pinot regions including Derwent River, Coal River and the East Coast. A well blended Pinot showing why Tasmania is the go to area for Aussie winemakers to grow Pinot Noir. — 8 years ago
Birth year wine for me opened on Dad's 70th birthday. Double magnum. Cork intact. Great nose. Taste of coal tar, cola. Tannins totally resolved. 40 years in a bottle, opened nicely over the night. — 8 years ago
Delicious but exceptional with a Coal Fire pizza! This wine is ready to drink. — 8 years ago
Precision, acid for days. — 9 years ago
Minty, mineral nose due to the volcanic terroir.
Cherries, minty still young in the palate with silky tannins. Long lingering length. — 10 years ago
Decanted, and opened nicely, lots of minerals, fruity nose, burnt wood, coal, smooth a little spice on the finish, great wine! — 8 years ago
Ruby colour with high intensity. Aromas: tabaco, pepper, fried meat, welding, blackberry, hay, barnyard.
Acidity is medium + its in balance with medium + tannins and same alcohol.
Taste notes: coffee, coal, prune. — 8 years ago
👁 Clear ruby purple
👃 Jammy, stewed black fruits -cherry, plumb, blackberry, spice box, coal and charring.
👅 Great acidity and excellent structure. Charred pizza crust, forest floor and earth.
✍️ Delicious and memorable! — 8 years ago
DeRat is an amazing bar in Utrecht. Vast selection of sours. This one is quite peculiar. Get strawberry and burnt wood on the nose, then it hits you with powerful sourness that burns in the aftertaste, and finished with an interesting oak+butter taste. The guy pouring it separated the sediment, which surprisingly smells like char coal. Too many compounds here. — 9 years ago
Almost at the end of my dry wine threshold but very delicious. — 9 years ago
Initially a little fat and flabby. Slow ox for two hours. Brambles, kirsch, garrigue, coal, spices...tremendous. — 10 years ago
Scott Soren
Structure, wood,coal and cocoa — 8 years ago