2021 Il Pinko Rose
Usually $54 - Special Offer $50
"Il Pinko is the wine built around the most interesting and distinct expressions of wine made from that vintage – a moving feast. This year we get a syrah rose, and while rose has featured before in the Il Pinko livery, I don’t believe it was produced as this one, in both qvevri and old oak. *Alan Cooper has informed me this IS the methodology since 2016, albeit in 2021 Spanish clay vessels were introduced.
Tasted even at room temperature this is a delight. Succulent, layered with exotic spice and brambly, peppery green herbs, sloshes of pomegranate juice and pickled cherries, a slip of hazelnut and something akin to the botanicals from alpine amaros. This is stunning; released in technicolour and 4D. Silky texture that fines perk from minerally acidity, a faint sheath of tannin, extraordinary length and a sense of the palate being saturated in all and sundry flavours and textures. In essence, world class rose. Don’t drink too cold – or cold at all!"
96 Points
Mike Bennie, The Wine Front
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