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| Instant Gratification - Allure |
Welcome back everyone to The Desert Wine Guys wine blog. Today we will be looking at my review of a white blend from IG Winery (
http://igwinery.com/) which is located in Cedar City, Utah. This particular review wine is of a non vintage, propitiatory blend of white wine varietals as well as grape growing locations. The wine that I am going to review today is the Instant Gratification - Allure. As a side note, the Instant Gratification label is a second label that Winemaker and winery owner, Doug McCombs introduced back in 2014. The red wine of this series is entitled "Seduction" while the White wine is entitled "Allure". For those of you who are interested, I have previously reviewed and rated the 2013 Instant Gratification Chardonnay (
https://desertwineguy.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-desert-wine-guy-iron-gate-winery.html) giving it a rating of only an 85 unfortunately, let's hope that this wine fairs much better.
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| Winemaker / Owner Doug McCombs |
Let's go ahead and start this review from the beginning with a very quick mention of the pour. Upon pouring the wine into my glass the wine appeared only a very slightly Golden in color. There was nothing special to speak of about the wine as far as it's appearance in the glass, it was rather plain in appearance and unimpressive. Now don't start to worry about this as it doesn't necessarily mean anything detrimental concerning the wine, at least not in my book. Prior to starting to panic we have to proceed to and answer the the next question. What is that question? The question was (which to me is the real issue) would the Palette be impressive or would it fall short as in the appearance in the glass? I am sure that I don't have to tell you guys that if the wine doesn't taste good (Palette) what is the use of the wine looking good in a glass or displaying a nice Bouquet. With these questions being thrown out there, let's try to answer them. On the nose there disappointment because really isn't a Bouquet to speak of. Yeah, there is a slightly
lemony nose present and perhaps also an ever so slight hint of the Kiwi as
well but for the most part there is nothing that really stands out. So we see at the beginning that starting off here we have a wine with an unimpressive display in the glass as well as an unimpressive (for the most part) Bouquet. Are these two (2) aspects of a wine really that important? My answer would be that it all depends on the price of the wine as well as what else the wine offers or brings to the table. With that being said, let's move to the last aspect of a wine and that is how the wine tastes on the Palette.
On the Palette this wine comes across as rather dry but with a decent amount of fruit yet it is not what I would consider an overly fruity white wine. Immediately after noticing the dryness to the Palette I did notice a surprising Raspberry note that for me seemed out of place, perhaps I was fooled into simply looking at the color of the wine in my glass and by not seeing any hint of a reddish hue it completely in my mind threw out the possibility of a reddish fruit tasting notes appearing on the Palette, I don't know. Continuing on from there I noticed that there was a slight harshness or Alcohol type acidity that stood out in my mouth. Although the Alcohol percentage is slightly lower than average it still was noticeable. As a side note, lately it seems that in my reviews of white wines I have been for some reason finding a few of them to be exhibiting that alcohol type acidity and I am not really sure why. At times the alcohol / acidity note I found to actually be welcome and seemed to elevate or enhance this wine, perhaps this was due to the other notes the wine possessed. There are times where this same alcohol acidity note that I found pleasing in this wine would simply ruin another wine but that is not the case here. Perhaps it was because the alcohol / acidity note was on the finish and added that dryish aspect to the wine. Further allowing the wine to sit in my mouth I detected a note of Pear hidden to an extent deep within the wine. Black Pepper as well stands out in here and as with all the other notes, I found it rather nice. Not to be outdone, there is a Lemony note in here as well that is not at the level of being tart and blends rather nicely with all the other notes.
The Lemon note added a drying component to this wine that allowed it to present itself as a more than semi dry wine. Be aware however that the wine does take some getting use to on the Palette before you can actually pick up and enjoy the notes of Pear as well as the slight residual sugar on the Palette. A note of Nectarine that is fairly prominent stands out as well here. If this wine is sounding nice to you that's good because it is nice and I am loving it. A quick note here concerning my comment of "slight residual sugar" that I mentioned. This wine is definitely not a "sugar bomb" as some Secondarily Fermented whites can be. This wine stands on it's own as being refreshing and having some nice complexity to it. The wine is overall fairly light yet still maintains a semi-dry and very flavorful wine on the Palette. I really thought this wine was really impressive to say the least. Add to this a moderate Kiwi note and you have yourself a pretty nice white wine. The Kiwi truly was bold and presented itself on mid Palette without any shyness to it whatsoever. O.k everyone, I hope that I have described a wine to you that you are thinking about buying. I think it is time now to wrap this review up so let's get to it because I have some wine to enjoy.
A nice, bold, ambitious attempt at a second label to say the least has been created here by Winemaker
Doug McCombs . While not really an up in your face wine it is up front with it's citrus / lemony / Acidic side. A wine perfect for some fresh Rainbow Trout or a non-spicy Sushi or perhaps a chicken dinner that is cooked without Lemon (this wine has enough) would go rather nicely as well. So now that we know what the wine brings to the table I will add the last bit of information that you need to know that will make this a wine to purchase and that last bit of information is that the wine costs $9.99. On The Desert Wine Guy rating scale I am going to give this wine a solid 91 points. While the wine did lose a couple of points for the lack of appearance in my glass it gained one (1) point back for it's price.
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