Cotnari Grasă de Cotnari

White flowers, lychee, guava, ripe yellow peach and ripe melon on the nose. This thing is all fruit, and shows a high intensity of aromas too. It reminds me of mediocre Moscato, or maybe an Asti Spumante without bubbles. Sweet on the palate, which adds lavender and lemon curd, keeps the stone fruits and loses the tropical ones. Medium + intensity of flavors. Medium body with medium - acid. Nothing more than a bulk sweet wine meant to pair with …

I'll be kind and call it flawed. It was on the edge between drink and chuck, and in the end I drank it. The main problem is it was a bit maderised, or more than a bit. There's a risk that was a feature rather than a bug, though deliberate maderisation is unusual in sweet wines that are only 11.5% alcohol. Behind the maderisation, there was a reminiscence of the delicious tamaioasa you could, for a while, get for about …

Clear pale lemon; clean medium nose of sweet lemon and minerality; medium sweet; medium plus acidity; medium minus alcohol; medium body; medium flavour intensity; palate has bruised apple, mango and honey; medium minus finish with a confected aftertaste; drink now; easy drinking afternoon wine - serve well chilled

Somewhat muted nose with some spicy whitepepper, honey, physalis and apricot. Semi-sweet with a good acidity and decent length and intensity. The sweetness is slightly sugary, which makes the wine a bit sticky. Really fun to try and I'm sure there are more prestigious and ambitious sweet Cotnari wines around that could really impress me!