Oleg Repin
Kokur Blanc
Ukraine
OLEG REPIN winery (Crimea, Russia)
SEVASTOPOL KOKUR BELY (white, 100% Kokur Bely)
VINTAGE 2014
Tasted 11/11/2016
Accessible, well-made, savoury white. Indigenous Crimean variety, Kokur Bely (Kokur Blanc). Double manual selection of grapes. Fermented at 17-18oC, then partially (40%) aged in Carpathian oak and its fine lees (60%).
Soft golden yellow, lemon glitters.
Intense and zesty aromas of autumn meadow and stonefruit garden. Longan, white raspberry, alstroemerias, smoke, physalice. Minerality whiff.
Slightly oily medium-bodied palate. Piquant bitter note behind white grapefruit, white pepper, quince, alycha, kumquat, feijoa scents.
Spicy (ginger, white pepper) and fruity (kumquat, lime, alycha, white currant) med-length finish.
Gone fine with gilt-head bream baked with herbs.
OLEG REPIN winery (Crimea, Russia)
SEVASTOPOL KOKUR BELY (white, 100% Kokur Bely)
VINTAGE 2014
Tasted 11/11/2016
Accessible, well-made, savoury white. Indigenous Crimean variety, Kokur Bely (Kokur Blanc). Double manual selection of grapes. Fermented at 17-18oC, then partially (40%) aged in Carpathian oak and its fine lees (60%).
Soft golden yellow, lemon glitters.
Intense and zesty aromas of autumn meadow and stonefruit garden. Longan, white raspberry, alstroemerias, smoke, physalice. Minerality whiff.
Slightly oily medium-bodied palate. Piquant bitter note behind white grapefruit, white pepper, quince, alycha, kumquat, feijoa scents.
Spicy (ginger, white pepper) and fruity (kumquat, lime, alycha, white currant) med-length finish.
Gone fine with gilt-head bream baked with herbs.