Today’s
wine is from a sort of almost living legend. At least one for Saint-Chinian wine, I
guess. So it is nothing really astounding or even unknown. The reason for presenting
this one is mostly inspired by the relatively extraordinary aromas which this wine radiated.
Oh, I almost forgot to introduce the wine and winemaker. It is the entry level
Antonyme 2011 from the Domaine Canet-Valette resp. Marc Valette. As far as I
know it is a red blend made of 50% Cinsault and 50% Mourvèdre which was aged in
stainless and not sulphurated. So, … :-) it might get interesting!!!
Nothing
really amazing about its colour! Pretty tinted and purple. Probably thanks to
the Mourvèdre part. The weirdness started with the nose. The bouquet was rather
concentrated (at least for this price range), intensely expressive and really wild.
I got scents of musky sweating animals, herbs (basil, thyme in combination with
green pepper), decent smoke and a whiff of detergent powder. However these
impressions were excelled by pretty awkward fragrances from minimally smoked
baloney sausages in a sweaty and “not so good” condition. I assume, due to a
combination of Cinsault and the “sulphur-thing”! At least the taste wasn’t that
influenced by this wursty’ness. It remained a bit in the background. In the foreground
I spotted well balanced and seemingly fresh flavours of dark cherries mixed
with a few raisins, nice herbal aromas and not so much muskiness. Quite a lot
of pleasing, not too complicated, fruitiness and smoothness (the tannins were
almost well integrated). Easy structure! Nothing really to bitch about, but nothing
extraordinary either! Apart of these already mentioned and highly extraordinary
fragrances + some flavours. Maybe they will ease in given time?! Maybe not!? Exiting
and possibly nice wine for adventurers! Not for me, ‘cause this
baloney-wursty-impression reminded me of a nasty encounter with sausage-sushi a
while ago! Ugh!
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