Smells like a Reuben on Rye or Bologna or summer sausage. With a strong smell of old pepper. Not unpleasant though. There is also strawberry soda and dusty oak, and a hot, coated grill with toasted cocoanut. The palate is configured in a completely different way, with the steel of the grill replaced with a sweated copper and peppery plum, sugary cran and cast iron, with a black raisin back note. Really an interesting grape! I would love to see this thing done in different styles for comparison, but this is definitely a top offering. Long after the sip, the wine gives you a stripe of bold fruit tannin just across the front teeth that lingers like a grape-induced gap. — 11 years ago
Mayolet 2012. Cran-cherried, nice extraction. Prickly well-integrated acidity — 11 years ago
Man this was good. Rasp and cherry cran. Spice. Not your everyday pinot. — 10 years ago
Rhubarb, cran, very clean. Excellent, best rose I've tasted. — 11 years ago
Peppered Beef jerky, pomegranate, prune, fig, tar, fruit leather and smoke and Boysenberry fruit on the nose. raspberry rubber, rhubarb and cran/cherry on the palate. I want duck with a cranberry reduction.. — 10 years ago
Le nez au niveau d'un grand cru, la bouche un cran au-dessous — 11 years ago
Holding strong, great cran & raspberry fruits, a touch of violet and herb, delish. — 11 years ago
Andrew
Light ruby with slight garnet edges. An earthy nose with cranberry and cherry fruit. Light bodied with sour cran/cherry fruit and mushroom. Dry with excellent length. $18. — 10 years ago