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RE: High alcohol content

Posted by triodesteve on July 11, 2011 at 19:57:17:
Why? You'd have to ask the winemaker (or the marketing dept).
I looked at the spec sheet for the 2010 and it was picked on the ripe side for a Rose'. It also says that 30% of the wine came from
bleeding. So that 30% came from grapes picked at even higher sugar (the 2008 version of the Sangio was picked at 26.8). So if that juice wasn't watered back..there you go.

I also noticed that the acid numbers are more in line for a red wine than a white ( I consider Rose' to be a white wine by design).

Honestly, just by looking at numbers, I would guess that it's not a very enjoyable Rose'...but numbers can lie I guess. Did you like the wine?

When I looked at the numbers for the red version of the Sangio, I noticed that the acid numbers
were also a little anemic for Sangio....have you ever tried that one?

In the end the wine is high in alcohol because of a winemakers decision. It's possible that the grapes didn't achieve proper flavors until it reached a higher brix level, and that's why it was picked so late. It's possible that the resulting wine is part of the winemakers "style"

In any case, he or she could of altered nature with a little bit of water and acid, but chose not to.