Saina Nieminen
Saina Nieminen
While celebrating this holiday named "Holiday", we enjoyed a couple good wines:
Cosimo Maria Masini "Cosimo" 2006
90% Sangiovese, 10% Buonamico. This wine was an equation (15% abv + refreshing structure + high evaporation rate = impossibility) that I thought shouldn't have worked. Yet we all liked it and a magnum was finished very quickly. How strange. I am starting to think that I rather like this producer: all their reds are crunchy, delightfully tannic, Real Wines with bright aromatics. And they make a decent orange wine, too.
J-M Burgaud Morgon CdP 2008
Not a producer that sees much love around these parts, but I find them constantly the best (and only, ha ha!) Morgon here. Crunchy, gravelly and tannic for Beaujolais. A lighter style than the previous years. I liked it. But perhaps that's only because we don't have Foillard, Lapierre, etc.
Askaneli Bros. Saperavi 2007 - Georgia, Kakheti, Kvareli
We used to see Teliani's Saperavis here and they were spoofy: Ozzie (IIRC) wine maker, smelled more of new oak than wine. So it was nice to get a cheap (c.10 IIRC), well made, characterful wine from this teinturier grape from Eastern Georgia. It is reputed to be a tannic and rugged grape. The structure of this wine, slightly reminiscent of a youngish, unspoofy Nebbiolo, certainly seemed like that, though aromatically this was nothing like Nebbiolo with its dark fruit and slightly foxy aromas. Fun wine.
Becker-Landgraf Gau-Odernheimer Sptburgunder J 2007
Quite a delight, bright and pure Pinosity, lively yet sexy. Strangely, compared to previous bottles, I thought I sensed a touch of oak-spice. I still enjoyed it - maybe I'm just so forgiving of flaws because of the holiday named "Holiday". Like the best natural wines, it was so light on its feet I felt like I was walking in the air.
Cosimo Maria Masini "Cosimo" 2006
90% Sangiovese, 10% Buonamico. This wine was an equation (15% abv + refreshing structure + high evaporation rate = impossibility) that I thought shouldn't have worked. Yet we all liked it and a magnum was finished very quickly. How strange. I am starting to think that I rather like this producer: all their reds are crunchy, delightfully tannic, Real Wines with bright aromatics. And they make a decent orange wine, too.
J-M Burgaud Morgon CdP 2008
Not a producer that sees much love around these parts, but I find them constantly the best (and only, ha ha!) Morgon here. Crunchy, gravelly and tannic for Beaujolais. A lighter style than the previous years. I liked it. But perhaps that's only because we don't have Foillard, Lapierre, etc.
Askaneli Bros. Saperavi 2007 - Georgia, Kakheti, Kvareli
We used to see Teliani's Saperavis here and they were spoofy: Ozzie (IIRC) wine maker, smelled more of new oak than wine. So it was nice to get a cheap (c.10 IIRC), well made, characterful wine from this teinturier grape from Eastern Georgia. It is reputed to be a tannic and rugged grape. The structure of this wine, slightly reminiscent of a youngish, unspoofy Nebbiolo, certainly seemed like that, though aromatically this was nothing like Nebbiolo with its dark fruit and slightly foxy aromas. Fun wine.
Becker-Landgraf Gau-Odernheimer Sptburgunder J 2007
Quite a delight, bright and pure Pinosity, lively yet sexy. Strangely, compared to previous bottles, I thought I sensed a touch of oak-spice. I still enjoyed it - maybe I'm just so forgiving of flaws because of the holiday named "Holiday". Like the best natural wines, it was so light on its feet I felt like I was walking in the air.