(September 5, 2020) … This is the wine I got engaged to some 12 or more years ago.
It starts off with a huge strawberry component and the longer it sits open that “strawberry” moves to red currant … the bubbles seem to have subsided over the years and the wine is now more a frizzante than straight on traditional method sparkling in nature; there is also some sweetness creeping in on the mid-palate.
Open now 30 minutes and a subtle earthiness moves in to both the nose and palate; that said it is still a pleasant wine. Yes the colour has darken with time and those pétillant bubbles are dropping out to create more of a still wine almost the moment it hits the glass (when poured it has minimal mousse) … it’s a little battered, a little bruised but it has held up – seems the right metaphor.