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2010 Big Men in Tights Rose
The notorious Big Men In Tights is a pink with a purpose. Its purpose is to be enjoyed at any time of the day or night. In fact it's for anybody who is genuinely serious about not being too serious about wine. But don't let that fool you..There is enough interest here to bring you back again and again to see if the original purpose you had in opening a bottle is enough of a purpose to open another one.
Vineyard
The grapes for our notorious BMIT are sourced from the mid-slopes of the original 1983 Blend Block planting at Bloodwood. Our Malbec, which comes from an obscure and degraded clone of French origin, yields only moderately. Even though the vineyard is trellised to a modified Scott-Henry design and the soils are well drained and friable, yields, unlike the wines, are never flash.
Vintage Conditions
2009 was textbook perfect for Bloodwood. Good winter and spring rains led into a balmy (sic) and calm vintage which was a pleasure to experience.
Winemaking
The Malbec for this BMIT was whole-bunch pressed along with around 5% Cabernet Franc and made along traditional white winemaking lines although extended post-ferment fine lees maturation for five months. After cold and protein stabilization it was sterile filtered and bottled in August 2009.
Wine Analysis
pH 3.25
Acidity 6.4 g/l
Alc/Vol 13.5%
Tasting Notes
About as rosy as a politicians re-election resume, this Spinmeister’s delight stumps up enough up-front cherry and cream favours to entice even the most conservative wine drinkers to drink early and drink often. And in the face of the continuing GFC mandatory renewable energies target downturn crisis situation going forward, (and as the alternatives don’t bear thinking about), we encourage you all to pop this in a coal- powered fridge, splash it in a coal-fired glass, and remind yourselves once more, until we turn off the lights, this is but dark farce.
What Other People Say
Well where do we start? The highlights over the years include being praised in the top 100 Rose styles at the London International Wine Show and pilloried in the stocks of common gossip as the worst wine label in the world by bloggers not too far removed from R. Parker Jnr's on-line site. Ah!! such are the thrills of being a wine maker in the 21st century.
Let's just say that the excellent Mr James Halliday rated the 2008 vintage at 92 points and it regularly makes the list of the best Australian Rose wines.
Mr Halliday's Review of BMIT 2010
Rating: 92
Alcohol:
13%
One of the early movers to the rose cause in New South Wales, this rose has been remarkably consistent in quality. Vivid puce. A particularly lively bouquet and palate, with distinct zest to the juicy red berry and plum fruit flavours; the spicy palate is long and effectively dry. The back label is, as usual, very funny.
A full (and longer than usual) tasting note for this wine will be
included in an upcoming book by James Halliday titled ‘1001 Wines
Under $20’, and will appear on the day of the release of the book,
scheduled for 1 November 2011.
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This matched up a treat with some grilled haloumi cheese and then some shoulder of lamb greek style
the other night. It was indeed one of those divine pairings of food and wine, the food and wine
carrying through together from course to course, versatile and adaptive with the overall synergy
making each even better. Blood fire engine red, the colour just dazzles and you swirl it round and
round until it looks like a siren on that fire truck. You can tell the fire-fighter in me comes out on these
occasions. Anyway this has fun and unpretentiousness written all over it and I thoroughly enjoyed it
with my meal. The time in the bottle has only mellowed it out nicely with a smoothness and softness
that just delights.
Drink to 2011. About $20. 92/100 – Excellent.
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