WBW #42 Just Seven Words: Marchesi Alfieri La Tota 2005
"Better than 2004's -- now I taste oak!"
San Martino, Alfieri, Italia. 13.5% <-- half a percent less alcohol than the 2004.
(Thanks to Andrew at Spittoon for this great great idea. I haven't participated in the last few events for WBW and hadn't really planned on contributing -- until I realized this could be my shortest post of all time and a little brevity always has its place . . . except in War and Peace.)
10 comments:
Nice one!! Do you think the oak adds to the enjoyment of the wine?
Grazza,
I do, but of course, oaking can be done poorly, in which case it very much detracts from wine's enjoyment.
My seven-word review for this 2005 vintage is a bit of cheating because it's a kind of addendum to my review of the 2004 vintage, which I linked to:
"An oak presence, I would hazard, is quite a nice thing for a Barbera. It seems to me that Barbera -- a rustic, often abrasive, frequently light-bodied varietal -- stands to gain a lot from oak's softening tannins and smoothing vanilla."
I really thought the 04 was done in stainless steel. The 05 clearly isn't and immediately I preferred it. Didn't taste them back to back of course, so I'm sure there are other differences but this is the one that really struck me.
Guten Abend, Doktor Weingolb :)
Congratulations for your seven-worder. And thank you for the precision; oak is not really an indication of anything. It can have the best and the worst results, doesn't it?
I quoted your 7-word review on the Vinismo article about that wine. Feel free to add to it if you want!
-niko
Allowable I think, many thanks says me
Mine's shorter, Marcus! My posting, that is.... I went for seven all around. A seven word title (if you don't count the WBW 42 tag), a seven word acrostic poem and two seven word credit sentences.
Good to see you back in WBW action.
Welcome back, Dok. I have to admit WBW 42 is the best WBW so far. It is so hard to come up with meaning and unique description of a wine in just 7 words, no more and no less.
nice choice - I have been meaning to try this one...looks like the '06 at SAQ is a half percent lower.
Well done Marcus!!
Niko, Andrew and David,
Each of you is more clever than the last one. Vinismo is an ambitious and attractive site -- I hope to get visiting with more frequency soon.
Andrew, your WBW was such a hit, right down to the classy 7 word replies to each participant.
David, an acrostic review too? You must win the mind like a steel trap award at all the blogging events.
RandB, Joe and Kelly,
Thanks for these notes. I feel bad for not visiting your sites, never mind my own, more often than I have been doing. More tasting notes discovered recently so more is on the way!
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