A few wines from the east tasted early in 2012

originally posted by fatboy:

i may be visiting soon. you should be thinking of letting some light into the closed world of the caves cndj with this shit.

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Totally let you slip away without tasting. I'm an idjit.
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
originally posted by SFJoe:
... the 2009 [Foradori] Nosiola was a single cuvee, bottled in 750s and mags. It never tasted the same, but there you go, these are live wines.
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They tasted the same to me; the 75cl version perhaps a smidge more anonymous (or "suave"?). However, many people, including a group of sommeliers at an anfora wine tasting, seemed to recall finding them markedly different.

Strange explanation for it, you have (and not very scientific). Are other "live" wines so characteristically different in different formats, in your experience?
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I found the Nosiola different enough in 750 that I thought it was a different wine. I find bottle variation, or different showings of the wines, from all the Foradori anfora wines. I think there is a larger variance around the mean, in vlm terms, for these wines, though I like where the means are. I have little scientific support, sadly. Some low or no-SO2 wines have a lot of variation for microbial reasons--your Coturri can be refermenting with any of 8 different organisms, and will taste different depending. I don't find that in my experience of Foradori. But empirically, the wines show differently on different occasions, and I can't always tell you why. But I generally like how they show.

(Were I less scrupulous, I could concoct some mumbo-jumbo around colloids that might be plausible enough.)
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A recent 2010 Nosiola was regrettably volatile, to the point of distraction.
 
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