Vinedo Vientos, Tannat Alcyone

Still a unique wine and unexpected wine from the Tannat grape. Fortified with brandy and infused with aromatic herbs, flowers and spices. A deep ruby colour and a superb nose with flavours ranging from chocolate and vanilla to spicy black fruits with multiple layers of flavour and complexity. Rich and attractive on the palate with sweet black cherry, chocolate, but with bite and acidity. Very long, and warming; I detected flavours and texture of olive oil on the very late …

Deep dark red center, red rim with signs of age. Not really fruit, more coffee, chocolate, burnt sugar. Quite sweet, but then a drying acidity and tannin, cacao nibs, green, caramel. Strange - more like a chocolate/coffee beverage (plus sugar). Not rated because it's not for me.

Very interesting suggestion from Uruguay. Like dark chocolate, toffee and coffee! Paired well.

Dark red in colour with a little browning. Almond biscotti and hint of coconut on the nose, weighty but silky with teeth staining tannins! Aniseed and black cherry on the palate and good acidity with freshness and lift on the finish. Nicely balanced and impressive dessert wine. BTG

Medium tawny with developed aromas of chocolate, vanilla, dried cherries, molasses, fig, raisin and marzipan. High alcohol and acidity with medium plus body, medium tannins and a long finish. Palate of cherry, raspberry , chocolate milk, caramel, vanilla, and coffee. This is a very good wine that should be drunk now with potential for aging

Tannat made in a Marsala style, then aromatised like a Chinato and aged in French oak for several years. Served blind by the somm to accompany a chocolate dessert, we all agreed this was nothing like any wine we'd tried before - closest relative perhaps being Banyuls. Intriguing nose that was quite vanilla-dominated, with drinking chocolate, coconut and sweet tobacco. Not as sweet on the palate as you'd expect, with notes of dark chocolate and a well-judged amount of acidity …

Our last bottle and it seemed even better than our previous bottle tasted some time ago. Very deep colour with a rich and fragrant nose. The palate had a lovely texture and was full of sweet dark cherries, vanilla, with almost overwhelming chocolate flavours. Very long. It opened beautifully with time and spice emerged - cinnamon with what fellow-tasters described as ‘hot cross bun’ and ‘marzipan’ flavours. A group of 11 tasters rated this as a 92. Great stuff!

This Tannat dessert wine had so many familiar flavors - chocolate and slightly minty like the old Vandermint liqueur. Also reminiscent of a coffee-coconut liqueur we brought home from Tahiti decades ago. We all enjoyed this dessert wine!

Both aromitized and fortified. Medium plus nose of syrup, toffee, black fruit, molasses. Palate has loads of chocolate layers, some other notes like spice in the alcohol, but that's the gist. Cool to try, not sure what to do with it after that.

Lovely deep nose of cocoa and vanilla. Velvety mouth feel with flavors of cocoa, plum, and spice. Exceptionally long finish that lingers until the next sip (whenever that might be). A touch hot, or else it would get 95+ from us. One of our absolute favorite dessert wines.

In the style of a Maury or Banyuls but with a lot more sweetness and complexity, aided by the botanicals of herbs and spices that are added. Inky black with wonderful aromas of a box of assorted chocolates, dark, milk and white. There’s sweet blackcurrant fruit plus almond and marzipan too to accompany the chocolate box aromas. To taste it’s very sweet with those gorgeous chocolate aromas coming through on the palate plus spices and vanilla pod. A distinctive and …

Concentrated, and showing a strong coco powder element. Otherwise, generally straightforward. Certainly tasty, and a likely bottled headache.

Very accomplished and delicious. Last very well in the fridge. Gives good Banyuls a a run for its money..

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Interesting stuff! Sweet, rich, complex with deep dark (mainly cherry) fruit and with strong vanilla, chocolate and coffee flavours. Long and with enough acidity to avoid being cloying. 90+ Tasted at Grand Union Wine Society with Carla Bertellotti of Vinos Latinos.

It smells like dark chocolate and also tastes like chocolate liquor with hints of grape

By the 50ml Glass via Coravin @ 67 Pall Mall, London. Served blind. We could not place this to save our lives and easily the first tiem we come across such a wine. Dark, toffee, biscuity, rich dense fruit, chocolate. Indeed a wine to pair with rich desserts like sticky toffee pudding but also a bit heavy and not easy to enjoy a lot. An ok and interesting wine but more liquerish, confectionery drink, than wine. 87

Uruguay dessert wine?! Delicious date, tobacco and dark cocoa on the nose. Palette more of the same would be delicious w chocolate, food Gras or chicken liver. Delicious.

Less chocolaty than last time.

This is a nice change for a Port drinker. Less tannic and unnnoticeable alcohol heat, with blatant chocolate flavor overtop some cherry cola and raisin/fig. The spice comes into play as the wine warms in the glass, but isn't much of a factor at refrigerator temperature. Good stuff!

A private dinner (Restaurant Sat Bains **, Nottingham, UK) : Bittersweet and spicy, full and velvety, chocolate liqueur, sweet cherries, like a cross between an amaro and Tia Maria, 16% ABV but no heat, good persistence.

Saturday at a local store (and a few bonus bottles). (Chuck's Fine Wines) : Easily the best Tannat based dessert wines from Uruguay I have ever had. Dark brown in color. The nose is like a Tootsie Pop - chocolate covered with a hard candy shell, likely the chocolate flavored. On the palate, this has more of a Tootsie Roll note to it. A bit of espresso. Slightly sweet. 16% alcohol but not showing any heat. A little goes a …

Interesting and uncannily like chocolate. "This unique wine combines two different techniques for dessert wines, the Barolo chinato and the Marsala. This wine is aromatised with several roots and herbs." $10 btg at Ruta del Vino.

Smells very strongly of raisin and chocolate. Tastes like chocolate also. Hints of maple syrup. Think it would go better in a mixed drink than on its own.

Had at a New Years eve party. Was surprised by this wine. Super dark and almost black with a great nose of coffee and vanilla. Last was all vanilla and some ripe raspberries. Would look to pick up a bottle for the future.

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