This wine is akin to the comforting feeling of returning home after a long journey, meeting expectations with a welcoming array of familiar aromas like lemongrass, ginger, peach, dried medicinal herbs, and buckwheat honey. Its nearly perfect balance, complexity, and multiple layers are underpinned by good acidity that supports its powerful tannins. The aftertaste is notably long, providing delightful flavours of pecan tart and buckwheat honey. The presence of volatile acidity (VA) is prominent throughout the wine, yet it's skillfully integrated, contributing to the overall harmony. This bottle showcases its quality, proving to be in excellent condition.

Some things are anchors in this ever-changing world. Complex, multilayered and delicious. I love how it manages to stay friendly and open.

As expected, it's changing little by little after the trip to Ukraine. In some sense, a benchmark orange wine. As with every other wine of this evening, I served it blind. It was amazing to see how everyone guessed that it was Ageno. And every person notes how skilfully it's made. Oxidized apple, dried apricot, dried herbs, and VA. Complex, multilayered and tasty.

Still nervous after the long trip to Ukraine, but already incredible. Top orange wine, charged with potential. Honey, ginger, forgotten apple that oxidized, dried apricot, and dried medicinal herbs. Good acidity, powerful tannin. Definitely, a wine to buy by cases and drink occasionally to witness its development. By the way, this is my first Ageno of even vintage.