Saina Nieminen
Saina Nieminen
Meloni Cannonau di Sardegna 2007
A cheap wine, but a good one, just 10,05. I liked this on first taste and now wanted to try it again. Really lovely, ripe but herbaceous aromas, a little bit meaty and spicy (not oak-spice). Good body, not too rich, certainly not thin; refreshing finish. This seems like a "real" wine - how on earth did Alko accept this into it's selection? And at such a cheap price? Miracles do happen...
(d.) de blanes Le Clot 2009 - Vin de Pays d'Oc, 100% Syrah
Another wine I loved on first taste; and another I love now when re-trying. Pure, dark fruit, meaty, like game bird's blood - though ripe and rich, it is very much more Syrah than Shiraz. Rich, more so than I remembered from my last taste, but still with good structure. Perhaps a touch reductive (which I didn't notice on my last taste). Wonderfully refreshing finish. Racy. Sadly most blanes (they are always lower case on the labels) aren't available here.
A cheap wine, but a good one, just 10,05. I liked this on first taste and now wanted to try it again. Really lovely, ripe but herbaceous aromas, a little bit meaty and spicy (not oak-spice). Good body, not too rich, certainly not thin; refreshing finish. This seems like a "real" wine - how on earth did Alko accept this into it's selection? And at such a cheap price? Miracles do happen...
(d.) de blanes Le Clot 2009 - Vin de Pays d'Oc, 100% Syrah
Another wine I loved on first taste; and another I love now when re-trying. Pure, dark fruit, meaty, like game bird's blood - though ripe and rich, it is very much more Syrah than Shiraz. Rich, more so than I remembered from my last taste, but still with good structure. Perhaps a touch reductive (which I didn't notice on my last taste). Wonderfully refreshing finish. Racy. Sadly most blanes (they are always lower case on the labels) aren't available here.