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What's in your glass tonight?
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My next-to-last bottle of a FWK Tavola Pinot Noir, coming up on 3 years old.
It's holding well at 3 yo; the quality is fine and the longevity is great. However, I'd not make another Tavola without 1 skin pack. I intentionally made it as a concentrate only, wanting a quicker drinker. In hindsight it's too light bodied for my taste.
However, it's a fantastic cooking wine for beef. Tonight I pressure cooked stew beef with onion and mushrooms, and this wine make a VERY rich sauce.
It's holding well at 3 yo; the quality is fine and the longevity is great. However, I'd not make another Tavola without 1 skin pack. I intentionally made it as a concentrate only, wanting a quicker drinker. In hindsight it's too light bodied for my taste.
However, it's a fantastic cooking wine for beef. Tonight I pressure cooked stew beef with onion and mushrooms, and this wine make a VERY rich sauce.
retaste:
Appearance - clear, deep, lemon yellow
Smell - good creamy, fragrant muscat nose that lingers
Tannin - good
Acid - good
Flavour - this is very tasty and fragrant with a really good finish. It should improve as it ages with the potential to become very good-excellent. So I'll try to age much of it. Consider adding citric acid to any flat Chardonnay. 71B gives you a good nose but drops the acid. Its a good yeast candidate for a white hybrid grape.
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retaste
Colour - deep yellow with very slight gold
Smell - very nice and complex - bananas, lychees, pears, honeydew melon, papaya
Tannin - good
Acid - good
Flavour - rich, complex Chardonnay with a really nice aftertaste. I have one left. This is excellent. So I'll age the last one so I can see how it morphs over time.
retaste:
Appearance - clear gold
Smell - honey smell is dominant, lingering complex interesting nose:
Tannin - good from the russet apples
Acid - good
Flavour - intense cyser. very pleasant, with a long finish, slightly sweet. Because of the colour it is probably peaking so I'll use what I left to make prawn linguine this week.
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retaste:
Appearance - clear deep lemon yellow
Smell - intense buttered popcorn, limes, lemon meringue (the lemon meringue smell is new and interesting)
Tannin - good
Acid - good
Flavour - This is improving. I think it is very good right now and totally different from any Chardonnay we've ever made. This is my first home made Viognier ever. I like it and would make it again along with the Orange Muscat. Chardonnay seems to be a really good blender.
I'd tap that... but I have never come across it. Where do you get it in your neck of the woods?
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It usually comes on the truck by the case from Woods Wholesale. I'm told it is also available at some Total Wine & More stores, but the nearest one to me is 2 hours away.
World Market has carried it.
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Don't even know what that is.
https://www.worldmarket.com
It's mostly overpriced furniture and junk. However, the one local to me has a decent wine selection at reasonable prices, nice coffee selection, low priced spices, and a variety of foreign (to USA) snack food stuffs. I go each November to buy stocking stuffers for the family.
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Yeah, I Googled it. Nearest store is like 2-1/2 hours away. Shrug. The truck brings the wine just fine.
It's not a regular stop for me, except once in November. Most of the products are not of interest, and a lot are overpriced.
But the stocking stuffers for the adults are fun. My sons may be adults, but they still love pulling stuff out of the stockings.
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