Скачать или смотреть Wine of the Week: Micro Wines Vine Vale Cinsault 2022

This week we have an amazing red from Australia, made by our good friend Jon Ross, who is a sommelier and importer of Australian wine.

Micro Wines started as a small-cuvée project by Jon Ross while he and his wife Jane Lopes (also an accomplished sommelier and wine expert) were both living in Australia. This particular wine is the second Micro wine we’ve featured in a Crunchy Red Fruit release. The first was a remarkable Shiraz from South Australia, and now we’ve moved to a different grape that also does well in that climate. Jon Ross and I passed our Master Sommelier exam on the same day in October 2017!

Cinsault is not on a lot of people’s radar, but it’s a grape that can do a lot of interesting things in the right place. Typically it’s a pale color, but with quite robust fruit, tannin and acidity. Cinsault also has a strong herbal component.

This is a tiny-production wine. Like, 1500 bottles tiny. Crunchy Red Fruit has about 400 members as of this writing, so we’re taking just shy of a third of this wine’s total production. Pretty cool to know you’re one of 1500 people in the world that will taste this particular wine in this particular vintage.

This Cinsault is a pale, cheerful fuschia color in the glass, and leaps forward with sweet herbal aromatics. Sweet basil, fresh tarragon, ripe strawberry and chocolate-eucalyptus come forth in a swirl. A first sip brings silky fruit and lovely chewy tannins, with a bright tartness on the finish. This “sweetness” is not actual sugar content on the palate, as this is a dry wine. But the general impression here is one of sun-ripened fruit and lovely fresh herbs.

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