2008 Pheasant’s Tears Saperavi - Georgia, Kakheti (7/11/2020)
Color is a beautiful dark purple with crimson edges. No browning or other age showing. Nose has a reductive note you get in a lot of Georgian wines, as well as very dark blackberry and dark red berries. A bit of cedar and lead as well. Absolutely gorgeous spell.
On the tongue, it feels medium bodied. It has a bit of Brett, not disimilar to Musar, but has a very strong acid backbone very common in Saperavi wines. Has sour cherry and more blackberry as well as a bit of minerality and “woodsy-ness”. It finished very very dry.
A very nice wine for my flavor profile, made all the better by my memory of purchasing the bottle.
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When I visited Pheasant’s Tears they poured us the 2007 that had had the exact same treatment. The sommelier there warned us that the wine might seem corked, since all the prolonged-kvevri-aged Saperavis from that vintage had been somewhat musty in the nose, and - exactly as he said - the wine had a rather musty, somewhat TCA-ish nose. However, it didn’t seem to be TCA, since instead of getting worse with air, the funk seemed to blow off in the glass slowly, although never clearing fully.
The 2008 didn’t come across as similar to this experience?
And if somebody’s interested, here’s my TN on the 2007 wine along with the rest of the PT wines we tasted: Travelogue: Georgia (the country) - WINE TALK - WineBerserkers
2008 Pheasant’s Tears Saperavi - Georgia, Kakheti (7/11/2020)
Color is a beautiful dark purple with crimson edges. No browning or other age showing. Nose has a reductive note you get in a lot of Georgian wines, as well as very dark blackberry and dark red berries. A bit of cedar and lead as well. Absolutely gorgeous spell.
On the tongue, it feels medium bodied. It has a bit of Brett, not disimilar to Musar, but has a very strong acid backbone very common in Saperavi wines. Has sour cherry and more blackberry as well as a bit of minerality and “woodsy-ness”. It finished very very dry.
A very nice wine for my flavor profile, made all the better by my memory of purchasing the bottle.
Posted from CellarTracker
When I visited Pheasant’s Tears they poured us the 2007 that had had the exact same treatment. The sommelier there warned us that the wine might seem corked, since all the prolonged-kvevri-aged Saperavis from that vintage had been somewhat musty in the nose, and - exactly as he said - the wine had a rather musty, somewhat TCA-ish nose. However, it didn’t seem to be TCA, since instead of getting worse with air, the funk seemed to blow off in the glass slowly, although never clearing fully.
The 2008 didn’t come across as similar to this experience?
And if somebody’s interested, here’s my TN on the 2007 wine along with the rest of the PT wines we tasted: Travelogue: Georgia (the country) - WINE TALK - WineBerserkers
Very interesting! In the restaurant I don’t remember that, but it was after a very long string of other wines…this time around there was certainly a bit of a funky nose on pouring it into the decanter, but it seemed to work itself out by the time we got to the bottle.
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