Crozes-Hermitage Blanc

This one is odd. Tropical and properly funky on the nose - raw, eggy, with overripe tropical fruit pushing through, the kind of register that announces itself loudly. The acidity sits on the lower side, but the reductive layer fills in the space and creates a sense of concentration that's mostly trick-of-the-light. Palate keeps going there - cooked nettles, that vegetal-eggy thread running through. The masking-as-substance approach disarms me rather than persuading me. Interesting, but not a register I want to spend time in. The outcast of the lineup.