This was a wine I sought out as part of the grape collection exercise. The exhibitor's listing gave the information as being made from early Magarach Ruby, Danko and Moldova. Magarach Ruby is a crossing between Cabernet Sauvignon and Saperavi which was created in 1928 at the Magarach viticultural institute in Yalta. Danko is Blaufrankisch crossed with a mixture of Rkatsiteli and Saperavi pollen created in the same institute in 1972, whilst Moldova is a cross of Guzal Kara and Villard Blanc.
After all these obscure grapes, the wine turned out to be as ordinary as the exhibitors told me when I asked for a tasting. The straw yellow wine had slight acid and wood cabinet notes on the nose, with an acid slightly fruity palate giving way to an acid finish. I sup[pose they were right in that this is not a wine I would want to try except for the fact I had gone grape variety collecting.
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