Kopke Vintage 2007 0.75l

Very purple with a hot pink rim. Impenetrably dark. Thick and rich looking legs on the glass. The nose has a strange smell to it that seems like alcohol, but doesn't smell like any variation I've smelled before. I also detect what I think are olives and dried mustard. During my struggles to identify the strange alcohol, I wrote down "grape sour patch candies." After much thought and tasting, I finally recognize the smell - it smells like the rooms that contain the lagares. When I finally come to that realization, Roy says that he sometimes notes that as "tanky" meaning it smells like the fermentation tanks. That triggers another descriptor for me, and I realize that it also smells like I would expect fermentation to smell like in grapes. (I've only ever smelled that in beer and whiskey.) The strange smell carries over to the palate and can be tasted, but that made it no easier to identify. The first impression in the mouth is hot, tart, and tangy. I wrote down sour as well, but in the sour patch candy sense and not in the bad grapes sense. Once through that powerful first impression there are a lot of very purple berries and the components of chocolate, but without it actually giving the impression of chocolate that VP sometimes gives. It's very lively and zesty. It's also hard to put down because it is so interesting. I never did write down any notes on the finish, but I do remember commenting to Roy that the grape skin that I find so typical was more along the lines of chewing a grape - so that there's fruit with it - rather than just sucking on a skin.

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