Hipster wine

[Saina Nieminen]

Bodegas Arúspide Tempranillo Pura Sangre 2010 - Spain, Castilla-La Mancha, Vino de la Tierra de Castilla
14% abv. Alko's first "natural" wine - and as typical for Alko, they follow the trends a little bit late and always go for an underperformer. So first the positive stuff: I don't smell oak (it is aged for a short time in big barrels) and there is some really attractive tannin and liveliness on the palate.

And then the negative stuff: it smells so sweet as to be raisiny and confected; and though attractively tannic and lively on the palate, it still ends up feeling rather too fruit forward and heavy and clunky.

The best natural wines - even those on the cheaper end of the spectrum - have ethereal grace and lightness of touch and are energetic and refreshing drinks. This one seems sweet and confected and despite some "natural" elements it seems heavy and graceless and pedestrian. Certainly among the safest of the "natural" wines I have had. This is a true hipster wine: too mainstream already.

 

[Christian Miller (CMM)]

I don't see this style of wine is necessarily "unnatural". You can make a low/no oak wine in as unmanipulative manner as you want, but if the grapes are harvested late, at low yields, in a hot climate, you can still end up with a fat, heavy, seemingly sweet wine.

 

[Unknown]

shitting up tempranillo is like abusing a desperate to please chubby girl who would put out just about anywhere. there is no excuse.

and given that vaguely industrial but eminently slurpable vino de la tierra de castilla abounds for just about nothing, a 14% "organic" piece of bullshit is just that. (it turns out that "rumours" really is better to listen to than god knows how many zillion bits of lo-fi turd out of williamsburg.)

but seriously -- what the fucking holy jesus? 14% alcohol on a motherfucking tempranillo? what did you expect? a spanish overnoy? this shit sounds like iberian herpes with "organic" on teh fucking label. why? and why, other than pouring it down the sink and saying, "ah, fuck it," why care?

say, "iz teh total shitz," already, and be done. it isn't worth the time of day.

and just don't be going giving it no points or nuthin.

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[Jeff Connell]

originally posted by fatboy:
shitting up tempranillo is like abusing a desperate to please chubby girl who would put out just about anywhere. there is no excuse.

and given that vaguely industrial but eminently slurpable vino de la tierra de castilla abounds for just about nothing, a 14% "organic" piece of bullshit is just that. (it turns out that "rumours" really is better to listen to than god knows how many zillion bits of lo-fi turd out of williamsburg.)

but seriously -- what the fucking holy jesus? 14% alcohol on a motherfucking tempranillo? what did you expect? a spanish overnoy? this shit sounds like iberian herpes with "organic" on teh fucking label. why? and why, other than pouring it down the sink and saying, "ah, fuck it," why care?

say, "iz teh total shitz," already, and be done. it isn't worth the time of day.

and just don't be going giving it no points or nuthin.

fb.

Just trying to figure out what time zone the fatboy is in.

 

[Unknown]

originally posted by Jeff Connell:

Just trying to figure out what time zone the fatboy is in.

i is in teh world of spatburgunder aus baden and wurttemberg. isn't that where we all are headed?

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[MLipton]

originally posted by Jeff Connell:

Just trying to figure out what time zone the fatboy is in.

He's in the Fatzone, no? (FDT?)

Mark Lipton

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

originally posted by MLipton:

originally posted by Jeff Connell:

Just trying to figure out what time zone the fatboy is in.

He's in the Fatzone, no? (FDT?)

Mark Lipton

Ever since Marlene Dietrich told Orson Welles "you should lay off the candy bars" in Touch of Evil, the chubster's had a hankering for Germania.

 

[VS]

Arúspide has always made shitty wine, natural or not. Try a very inexpensive tempranillo from La Mancha called Paso a Paso, by my friend Rafa Cañizares, and you'll find a lot more zing and fruit and some tannins than with this stuff. (BTW - 14% with tempranillo at these latitudes is nothing strange, and is no indication per se of flabbiness.)