I retasted 2/3 Moraine with 1/3 Black Iris.
Here are my comments:
Appearance - inky purple
Smell - good complex interesting hard to describe smell
Tannin -good
Acid - good
Flavour - I find it slightly sweet from the Black Iris. The flavour is good. If the black iris was less sweet this would taste better. If I can drop the sweetness in the future e.g. 2024 harvest this could be good and possibly very good. I don't like sweetness in my red table wines although I know that many people do.
So I tried to see if I could fix this re-blending it so I took 2/3 Moraine with Black iris (call it blend 1) and I re-blended it 2/3 blend 1 with 1/3 Moraine
Here are my comments on that blend;
Appearance - inky purple
Smell - good clean smell, hard to descrive
Tannin - good
Acid - good
Flavour - this still sweet but the flavour is ok. I'll be really carefull to drop the sweetnes of any red wine from grapes or fruit wines added to grape wines.
So I did it one more time to see if I could fix it i.e. 2/3 "last wine - look above" and 1/3 Moraine
Here are my comments on this last blend and tasting:
Appearance - clear inky purple
Smell - good clean nose which I won't describe here
Tannin - good
Acid - good
Flavour - this is much better even though I still get slight sweetness. If I can make Black iris with no sweetness this blend could be very good.
