Always
Something New!
We've
made discoveries this week! One, a wine made from
one of the rarest grapes in the world. Second, a sulking
beauty of a Pinot Noir from Austria, and third, perhaps our
favorite Dolomiti red this year.
Read, Relax and Enjoy!
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2024
Paşaeli Karasakız 6N Kaz Dağları
(Turkey, Ege Bölgesi)
$24
An
ultra-rare variety, a legendary ancient
landscape and a very determined producer
come together in this delicious Turkish red.
A few kilometers from the city of Troy (yes,
that city) grows one of the rarest varietals
in the wine world: Karasakız.
from Jancis Robinson:
"The vineyards where Paşaeli grow the
Karasakız variety are situated in Gedik just
to the north of Kaz Dağları, which, to those
of a Homeric persuasion, may be more
familiar as Mount Ida, playground of the
Olympians, seat of Zeus and home to many a
bucolic scene in The Iliad."
There are history in these vines.
For the wine geek these are the production
details:
"Fermentation took place in stainless-steel
tanks with skin contact of 20 days with
pumping over as well punching down at 23 °C
on average. The wine was aged in
stainless-steel tanks for 7 to 8 months with
occasional lees stirring before bottling. TA
5.92 g/l, pH 3.36." -JR
Here at Renegade we found the wine to be
beautifully aromatic, steeped in zesty
citrus/red fruit (cherry, strawberry,
raspberry), crunchy, savory, with beautiful
structure. This is your ultimate exotic,
chill-able Summertime red; think picnic
baskets on the beach, blankets on grass in a
park, open air movie theaters (though you'll
have to drive to the Sunset Drive-In in
SLO).
If you like Lapierre's Glou Glou you'll love
this one too.
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2023
Weingut Ewald Gruber Pinot Noir Galgenberg
(Austria, Niederösterreich, Weinviertel)
$26.50
The
label grabbed us, reminiscent of
illustrations by Maurice Sendak.
Then we tasted the wine.
The
cool winds of the Weinviertel and granite
soils in the vineyard produce this finely
balanced, single-vineyard Pinot Noir.
Organically certified (ECOCERT) this wine
begins with aromas of herbal spice,
black currant, and a whisper of licorice.
First sips reveal an array of red fruit
(cherry, raspberry, rhubarb, pomegranates),
plum notes emerge mid-palate with savory
earthiness and lip-smacking acidity. There's
a long finish involved, and then of course,
that next glass.
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2024
Alois Lageder Schiava
(Italy, Trentino-Alto Adige)
$24
Shimmering
and seductive, flirty and beguiling, this is our wine
of choice on warm evenings under a cloudless sky, or
any sky for that matter. If you like Schiava, that native
grape in the Dolomiti region of Italy, this one's a wowser!
Wonderfully
pure, great aromatics, wild red fruit (raspberry, red
currant, Logan berry), white peper, alpine herbs, silky and
graceful...our wine notes rambled as we tried to wrap our
taste buds around this one.
Simply put, we love this one. Enjoy slightly cool and be
prepared to open a second bottle.
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