Zenitude Audace 2014 Review And Tasting Notes
Zenitude Audace 2014 is a hard and pure natural wine, unfiltered, not clarified, and free from any added sulfites. As soon as you open the bottle, it slaps you. It is grumpy and attacks you with heavy notes of blood and iron. And it has a lot of reduction—it seems destined for a sad departure in the sink drain. But after an hour, it totally changes: everything is illuminated.
Organoleptic characteristics
Become sunny. It tickles you with a carefree lightness, hints of the forest, orange peel and a thousand scents of flowers and ripe fruit. The blood subsides and more delicate earth, rock and primroses notes emerge. Nothing fancy, but the change is astounding. A slight balsamic note is also perceptible.
On the palate, it is juicy, not too tannic, but well defined by a tight phrasing between fruit and acidity. It is not a particularly savory wine. On the contrary, it focuses on the gluttony of the fruit and on the tannins that relax over the years, opening and innervating throughout the juice, adding graceful earthy and undergrowth notes.
Recent vintages have swept away on the palate, but if you have the patience to let it rest in cellar 6 or 7 you will have an excellent red wine in your hands at the price of not even 20 euros.
How it is produced
Not a wine for aging. It will not last 20 years, it is not a bomb of finesse, but it has an incredible fullness, body and a crazy aromatic volume that, with a few years, will find balance and full realization. But not for abstruse reasons or because it has an exaggerated extract, but because it is a wine made in a precise, clean and natural way. Everything that was in the bunches ends up in the bottle without sophistication.
It has an excellent pulp and structure since part of the bunches was also pressed with the stalks. Biodynamic regime. Manual harvesting of Cinsault in purity, spontaneous fermentation, maceration for 8 days and then aging for 22 months in concrete. No sulfites are added, but there are no defects. All you need is a little patience and a serving temperature of 16 degrees.
Price
18-20: An acceptable price for an excellent natural bottle that doesn’t jump through hoops but is solid, reliable, tasty, and full of juice. It offers itself without pretensions and without expecting anything.
Food Pairings
With all this fruity juiciness, it is an excellent summer wine: you can combine it with lamb kebabs, gnocchi with Bolognese, hamburgers, baked lasagna, truffle risotto, pasta Amatriciana.
