Telavi Wine Cellar Saperavi Satrapezo Kakheti

This was a gift that I hadn’t added to my cellar, this was a real surprise. Lots of dark fruits, ripe plumbs and very ripe blackberries and vanilla on the nose. On the palate hard to break down. Ripe tannins very ripe dark fruits blackcurrant and soft in the pallet, slightly metallic but not unpleasant coating my tongue with drying tannins like sloes without the acidity. Currants ready for a Christmas cake. This is a very nice wine.

100% Saperavi from a single vineyard in Kondoli, Kakheti. Harvested in late September, the grapes are crushed and moved into buried earthenware kvevris. Fermented spontaneously, macerated with the skins for 6 months. Racked into new oak barriques and aged in oak for 24 months. Bottled unfiltered. Total production 40,000 bottles and 300 magnums. Bottle #12433. 14% alcohol. Dense, almost fully opaque black cherry color with a deep, inky core and slightly translucent, subtly blueish rim. The nose feels brooding and …