Saina Nieminen
Saina Nieminen
Pieropan Soave Classico 2007 12% abv
This was moved from the special order selection to the normal selection, and as a consequence the price also dropped from 16,76 to 13,36! Hurray for Alko! For once there is some good news from our usually pathetic monopoly! The wine is just as good as I remember from last summer: very mineral scent, yellow and limpid fruit. It is fairly full bodied yet is still clear, precise and limpid with good, citrus-like acidity. It's not a profound wine like the Calvarino sometimes seems to me to be, but it is much fun.
Can Camps Peneds Pedradura 2004 Peneds; 13,5% abv
Full disclosure: since I last mentioned this wine anywhere on the internet, we decided to import it to Finland (which is perhaps such a remote place (a poor second to Belgium when going abroad, with tree tops so tall and mountains so high) that it's ok to post?)
Once again, I find this a very satisfying wine. It smells deliciously ripe yet it has a strong savoury, vegetal/earthy character to it so it isn't all about the fruit. It is like a Texier CdPape with a curious twist, yet the curious twist doesn't seem out of place at all. Sweet, ripe fruit, good structure, no sucrosity despite being sweetly fruity. Very nice wine with gladly no new oak aromas (though I was under the impression that a small percentage did see new oak!). Knowing that Marselan is a cross of Grenache and Cabernet Sauvignon, I can see the differences to these two grapes, but still the cross (at least in this wine) seems a very successful one where their seemingly vastly different personalities come together in a seamless whole.
This was moved from the special order selection to the normal selection, and as a consequence the price also dropped from 16,76 to 13,36! Hurray for Alko! For once there is some good news from our usually pathetic monopoly! The wine is just as good as I remember from last summer: very mineral scent, yellow and limpid fruit. It is fairly full bodied yet is still clear, precise and limpid with good, citrus-like acidity. It's not a profound wine like the Calvarino sometimes seems to me to be, but it is much fun.
Can Camps Peneds Pedradura 2004 Peneds; 13,5% abv
Full disclosure: since I last mentioned this wine anywhere on the internet, we decided to import it to Finland (which is perhaps such a remote place (a poor second to Belgium when going abroad, with tree tops so tall and mountains so high) that it's ok to post?)
Once again, I find this a very satisfying wine. It smells deliciously ripe yet it has a strong savoury, vegetal/earthy character to it so it isn't all about the fruit. It is like a Texier CdPape with a curious twist, yet the curious twist doesn't seem out of place at all. Sweet, ripe fruit, good structure, no sucrosity despite being sweetly fruity. Very nice wine with gladly no new oak aromas (though I was under the impression that a small percentage did see new oak!). Knowing that Marselan is a cross of Grenache and Cabernet Sauvignon, I can see the differences to these two grapes, but still the cross (at least in this wine) seems a very successful one where their seemingly vastly different personalities come together in a seamless whole.