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Groll n'Roll - 2022

Les Vignes de Babass

3.8 / 5.0

Region
France » Vin de France
Type
red still, dry
Vintage
2022
Grapes
Grolleau
Alcohol
10
Sugar
0
Price
820 UAH
Cellar
not available
Les Vignes de Babass Groll n'Roll 2022

Ratings

3.8 / 5.0

750 mL
@Boris

This wine can't decide what it wants to be when it grows up. So what does it do?

First, it roars at you with the wildness of fermentation, throwing notes of Borodinsky bread and coriander. Then, it turns melancholic, with peppery and green notes. Eventually, it slides into a midlife crisis and just reminisces about how tasty plums were in its childhood, before finally sipping on cough syrup.

The structure is interesting. Initially, it bites with a thousand tiny bubbles like piranhas, more reminiscent of a rich wine diluted with soda. But fish doesn't live forever, so the wine becomes flat and gentle, like toothless gums.

This uncertainty is annoying because it's so relatable. Yet, as I ponder, glass after glass empties. So let's put it this way: drinking this wine is interesting, even if it's not complex and somewhat flat.