Wednesday 28 May 2014

A Bottle Of Bubbly - 2006 Iron Horse Classic Vintage Brut

Home early - thankfully! - from a hellish day and I need some immediate satisfaction. I thought that this bottle would do the trick.
I got this bottle as a gift - thanks Ulf! I have tasted some vintages of Iron Horse, but that was many years ago so this should be fun!

2006 Iron Horse Vineyards Classic Vintage Brut
A medium deep, low keyed nose with interesting notes of lemon cream, pickled ginger, red apples, raspberry truffles, smoke and some clay. A fine sweetness to the fruit. Very, very good. A tad soft but it has a fine purity to it.
The taste is gentle, fresh and very gulpable with notes of red apples, ginger, butter fried nuts, clay and a perfumed note. A fine underlying acidity. The finish is medium long and ends with a nice dry twist. This 68% Pinot Noir and 32% Chardonnay blend is drinking great today and I can´t really see any upsides cellaring it longer. Just down the hatch!
90p   (tasted 2014/05)

And it would of course be a misconduct on my part if I didn´t recommend another Iron Horse...

2 comments:

  1. Glad you liked it! I had a Schramsberg ages ago, very nice. Interesting with the clayishly scent and taste, hm.... Certainly there are lots of interesting west coastian sparklings!

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    1. Yes, so much wine to taste, so little time...:-)

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