Breton, Cuvaison, Dettori

The Gargiste offer I got was the Dettori Tuderi "Badde Nigolosu" 2006 (if I'm spelling it right). I have two bottles, and opened one about a month ago.

I agree it's easy to describe the wine as a microbiological horror show, because, well, it is. I personally enjoyed it, but I'm not sure it's worth the $35 a bottle. There are some really geeky people I'll drink my second bottle with, but I can easily see that, much like some of the more adventurous cuts of organ meat, this wine is not for everyone.

For me, I enjoy it because even though it is funky as hell it doesn't cross into the realm of fruitless, and I think it wears its alcohol pretty well. It's definitely cut in the mold of Grenache I like to drink (there are not many). I find it kind of like like really fucked up Rayas "La Pialade".

All told, I do like the white better. The wine is definitely more technically intact and less VA-ridden.

I will buy more of Dettori's wines, but more for geek parties and at the right restaurants, rather than for my cellar.
 
originally posted by Zachary Ross:
Got my Garagiste bottles of the 2006 Dettori Renosu Romangia IGT today, and so I opened one - it's really nice! 14.5% if the X-Files label (I want to believe) can be trusted.
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Mine just came yesterday. I though I would let them rest, but you're making me curious. Perhaps the shorter elevage helped control some of the VA and other "features"?
 
originally posted by Morgan Harris:

I will buy more of Dettori's wines, but more for geek parties and at the right restaurants, rather than for my cellar.
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Have you ever tried one with any kind of age? I have had a couple of good bottles but just can't see how they can develop with alcohols that high.
 
originally posted by Cliff:
originally posted by Zachary Ross:
Got my Garagiste bottles of the 2006 Dettori Renosu Romangia IGT today, and so I opened one - it's really nice! 14.5% if the X-Files label (I want to believe) can be trusted.
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Mine just came yesterday. I though I would let them rest, but you're making me curious. Perhaps the shorter elevage helped control some of the VA and other "features"?
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Aside from being quite ripe and very fruit forward, I didn't get much in the way of VA or any other flaws. The wine was relatively simple but delicious.
 
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