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Boris
Mythopia
shining
2009
4.4
Region
Switzerland › Valais › Valais AOC
Type
red · still
Grapes
Pinot Noir
Alcohol
12%
Volume
750 mL
Tasting Notes(1)
4.4
Wow, crazy. Smells like vin jaune, drinks like a dry sherry with the tannins beautifully integrated. Pecan, curry, maple syrup, apricot, a flash of nail-polish-remover acetone keeping it sharp. The orange-amber colour reveals what happened in the cellar: three months on skins plus close to a decade in untopped oak broke down the red pigments and pushed the wine somewhere between Pinot Noir and oxidative-style sherry. Proper structure, properly delicious. Pure transformation.
About
The 2009 release of Shining, Mythopia's long-elevage orange Pinot Noir, bottled in 2019 after close to a decade in 400-litre old oak with no topping up. Three-month maceration on skins, fruit from the schist side of the river that crosses the Mythopia vineyard. The Kubrick-borrowed name fits the colour: by bottling the wine reads more orange than red, with sherry- and vin jaune-leaning notes layered over the original Pinot frame. 12% ABV. No SO2, no fining, no filtration.
