Today I'd like to start a new section on this little blog: The
Re-Tasteing section! At a few occasions I'd like to re-taste various
wines and transmit my current impressions. I'd like to start with the
most popular wine! The Castello di Pomino Pinot Nero 2008! Most
popular? Well, at least according to the surprising large amount of
clicks. Then it was a reserved and rather tart / hard Pinot which was
dominated by dried berries, cherries and autumnal flavours. Now:
The colour looked vital (still)
and radiant dark'ish red. Somehow it seemed slightly brighter than my
"March 2012 edition” - which is pretty hard to believe (for me). The nose
showed plenty of dried bright red cherries, a bit more fruit than
last time and far less autumnal scents. Only a few moist leaves and
hints of mushrooms were detectable. Strange enough – the taste,
showed plenty of mushroom'y flavours!? Maybe even more than one year
ago! The fruit flavours of dried bright cherries got more expression,
smoothness and sweetness. In the whole there was far more, surprisingly far more, fruit than one year ago! Besides the mentioned cherries I snapped
lively flavours which reminded me of raisins-and-nuts chocolate, very mild
black pepper, only traces of fresh grounded coffee, hints of mild smoke and hardly any mineral impressions.
The acid shoved off (unfortunately). Should have been a bit more left, I
guess. The tannin structure used to be harder (-> positive development)
and more background-expressive / thrilling (-> negative development). The finish
was acceptably long and not as tart as one year ago. The
entire composition seemed far more smoothed and tamed and not soooo that
Tuscan-Pinot ferocious ;-). A very remarkable change within one year!
Indeed a very unexpected transformation to a typical and more
“regular” representative of Pinot Noir without edges! I am not
quite sure what to think about it! It is still a decent **** Pinot.
No doubt about that! And, for me, definitely better than the old Pomino
Rossos. Maybe right now it appears a bit boring and too slick! I
guess I liked it one year a bit more …
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