Monday, March 31, 2014

Luca Ferraris Ruche 2012

The wine is thin, the wine is light.  The wine is the color of old cranberry juice.  The wine has a sour edge and spritzyness that verges on cooked/refermented/Gino's homemade-type wine.  The nose is perfumed, strange: magic markers, rose butter, overcooked strawberries.  This wine should go on thin, dry, crispy rye pancakes.  There is a whiff of blood, which is to say, iron, there is a ferrous whiff, a floral whiff, a succession of interlocking whiffs, a daisy chain, where some of the links are sharpies and some are bloody steel.  The palate is opaque but thin, brittle (thanks mr. finger), and short-lived.  The vague, almost imaginary spritzyness adds to the sense of acidity, overdoes it, feels like pop rocks on the sides of the tongue.  

I am determined that there is something I am missing.  I will have another glass and then continue. 

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