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- TheEngineer - 02-02-2005
A friend provided this bottle for a taste and I was very surprised, not ever having a fruit wine before.
I used a burgundy glass to taste. The nose is tremendous! Lychee at its best ripeness and sweetness. Smell is overpowering, with the density of the nose so high perhaps more so than even icewines. Unlike grapes, this wine did not have any other scents that I could get other than the alcohol. Definitely not a very balanced wine, but not entirely poor either, similar to Southern French wines. The texture as very very smooth and full. Lots of favor everywhere and a medium finish with an alcohol sense at the end. My first experience. Nose was worth the price of entry. If they produced a bit drier version could be a worthy partner to Asian food as opposed to Riesling and Gerwurtraimienererererr..okay it getting late on the east coast.
- Kcwhippet - 02-03-2005
Not so surprising, actually. People will make wine out of absolutely anything - witness the recent news items about someone in China making wine out of fish. Some very good friends went to New Zealand a few years back, and all they brought me back was a bottle of Preston's Kiwiberry wine. It was really quite nice, for what it was.
- Thomas - 02-03-2005
OK, so it is left to me to say it once more: if it ain't produced from grapes it ain't wine.