We’ve been fans of Pollak Vineyards since our first visit almost 2 years ago. While we haven’t loved every wine we’ve tried there enough to bring it home with us, we’ve enjoyed most of what we’ve tried. When we’ve subsequently opened the wines at home, we’ve continued to be happy with our purchases. Apparently all good things must come to an end, and we recently opened a bottle that was not doing it for us.
The wine was the ’09 rosé. We bought it during the winter so we’d have some pink wine on hand for when things started to heat up in the spring. Thankfully for us, the spring was fairly cool, so we didn’t turn to pink wines until recently. When we opened this bottle, we noted a somewhat chemical nose that had slight hints of acetone. As i sipped, these chemical notes were definitely less noticeable, but they were still there at the edges. Most of what I was getting at this point was that fake strawberry flavor you get from some candy. There was also some black pepper and a slight hint of something herbal that makes me think cab franc is definitely a part of the blend.
Oh well – I’ve had enough good experiences with Pollak that I’m still looking forward to future tastes of their wines.
June 21, 2011 at 9:48 am
Part of what makes VWD such an asset to the blog is the fact that she really takes one for the team. If a wine isn’t showing great, she’ll still go for the details, picking out individual characteristics. Me? I content myself with focusing on the fact that there’s alcohol in my glass. I wasn’t getting acetone so much as a real dirty funk. Not good funk like Parliament, bad funk like what was on the B side of the album “Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk” that came out in the 70s. What happened?
June 21, 2011 at 10:03 am
That’s really odd. I remember liking this pink in the tasting room, though we elected to bring something else home with us that visit. Like you, I really enjoy Pollak overall, so I’m curious to taste this again and see what I might have missed (or if something was weird with this bottle, maybe?).
June 21, 2011 at 1:07 pm
It seems to me that y’all have been on a Rose tasting binge lately. ;>
June 21, 2011 at 1:20 pm
Warm weather does tend to make us think pink 🙂