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The wine has
a lighter sockeye salmon colour and has small bubbles that collect on
the sides of your glass. It has a youthful medium intensity nose showing
wild strawberries and tart red fruit, and with some air, red cherries. It
is off-dry but has high acidity to off-set it. Some roundness. You
get tiny biting bubbles up front, but they convert to a creamy mouthfeel from
mid-palate to finish. Mostly red fruits and red cherry flavours, with a
lesser amount of strawberries, and some black currant leaf toward the
finish. I also picked up some saltiness (minerality from the grapes) in
the wine. Lots of bubbles and the acidity in the wine creates texture in
your mouth. The wine has a medium length that finishes with red fruit,
cherries and bitter leaf. If you were to blind taste this wine, you would
not probably guess this is Mateus; you would guess that is a sparkling New
World wine.



