Today’s Pinot
was produced by Miolo Vinicola. One of the big wine producers of Brazil. This
specific wine comes from Fronteira region alongside the border to Uruguay. More
precisely: from Fronteira in Rio Grande do Sul. The Sevial winery is about 120 ha
large and concentrates on the cultivation of French and Portuguese varietals. Today’s
wine was produced from manual harvested grapes (Wow!) and was aged in used
French and American barrels.
The colour
looked aged and murky. Clear red-brown discolourations! In the core still
rather dark and tinted. The bouquet was dominated by plums, a bit coffee, a bit
fat and flat raspberries, hints of smoke and other dark and a bit oily
components. To the end (approx. 5 hours) heavily crushed cherries got more and more obvious. The
presents seemed a bit bored and not so much swinging. The taste appeared to me well proportionate, a bit delicate and decently fine. With regards to its actual
style! Maybe even a bit elegant and reserved fruitful! However the fruit
flavours were a little bit disappointing. The flavours of raspberries, hints of
muddy dark cherries and coffee seemed a bit vague (or imprecise), not too clean
and somehow without a lot of life. Those flavours were present, but somehow absent as
well. Probably a bit confusing ;-). Perhaps some acid issues. The quality and kind of acid. Not the quantity. Don’t really
know. The finish was nice and there was nothing to complain about the
concentration. Probably a bit past its peak. For 9 Euro surly fine! However, my first Brazilian Pinot was
most definitely better!
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