Let's get naked, again

Here's a brief write-up of some of the more interesting wines I encountered at the Naked Wines tasting in London this evening. I have to say, I think the interactions with the winemakers were at least as interesting as the wines, if not more so. So nice to have a room full of enthusiastic producers who were for the most part absolutely delighted to share any amount of detail about what they do, and why. In fact I worry that I may have rated some wines more highly, merely because I had a good conversation. Objectivity can be hard to find in a crowded room, when you've tasted 30 or 40 wines . . .
Paul Klein Muscateller 2010
An off-dry Muscat, heady with grape flavours and white blossom aromas, and with a very attractive "spritz" - in fact, I couldn't help thinking that if you take a good Moscato D'Asti and remove most of the residual sugar, the result might be something like this. Rather wonderful, and at 10.5%, not too dangerous . . .
Brewery Hill Jacko's Leap Savarro 2010
A curiosity - …
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