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| Drinking window: Drink between 2011 and 2014 (based on 27 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 88.6 pts. and median of 89 pts. in 8 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Mike Kopanski on 11/19/2012 & rated 88 points: I'm tasting blind here. Can't read the label, it's in Spanish. Have never heard of the varietal. There are lots of strange things happening here. Super rich dark purple color. Very exotic, mysterious nose of cotton fiber, just turned black earth, and minerals. Very backward and Old World style designed to celllar for decades. The deep, and hidden wild blackberry fruit is super rustic and untamed. Nicely balanced oak, tannins, and acid. If you like wines where the fruit stands behind the secondary flavors, this is your wine. I suspect, in 10 years this wine will show black licorice bathed in black cherry. The finish is rough graphite, spicy astringency, and blackberry swimming in tannins. (2483 views) | | | Tasted by Gail and Len on 1/17/2012: - Crimsom color with fast forming legs and aromas of blackberry. It's somewhat balanced with a medium/full body. Polished texture with a medium finish - Very approachable with nice finish (3629 views) | | | Tasted by lpollack on 8/8/2011 & rated 90 points: Garnet color. Nose of red fruits. Medium concentration. Bright taste of dark red fruits. More new world than most Spanish wines. Very pleasant to drink. Great QPR (4178 views) | | | Tasted by pjgo123 on 4/16/2011 & rated 89 points: This is an excellent light red. (4344 views) | | | Tasted by gnosis on 2/12/2011: Juicy, garnet eyed, complex pure frutiness. Almost a dead-ringer for some Beaujolais, has depth, roundness, yes fresh. Easy by the glass, and handle food. Bobal from carbonic maceration, clean, spicy varietal finish. Yum, I quite liked, original, enough quality here. (4562 views) | | | Tasted by pbaek on 2/7/2011: I've found this retailer in Rye who specializes in obscure, small production wines. This is a biodynamic wine made from the Bobal grape (among others?). What strikes me most with this wine is its apparent freshness - this is unlike many other Spanish wines that I've tried. The fruit is red with spicy flavors and there is a nice mark from the soil (clay). There is some sweetness coming through on the palate (think Grenache). Like a mix of a lush Southern Rhone and a Beaujolais. Really interesting wine that I liked a lot. (2706 views) |
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Spain is the third largest wine producing nation in the world, occupying the majority of the Iberian Peninsula with vast diversity in climate, culture, and of course, wine. From inky, dark reds of the [Priorat] to dry, white Finos from Andalusia, Spain can easily boast of elaborating a wide variety of notable styles. Within Spain there are currently 62 demarcated wine regions, of which a handful have gained international recognition: [Rioja], Priorat and [Ribera del Duero]. Yet these regions are only a small sample of the high quality wines Spain produces. Regions such as Cava, Penedes, Somontano, Galicia, Rueda and Jerez are only a few of the numerous regions worthy of exploration throughout Spain. Spain can also lay claim to having the most land under vine in the world, growing up to, by some accounts, 600 indigenous varietals of which Tempranillo is their most well known. Other popular varietals include [Garnacha], Bobal and Monastrell for reds and for whites; the infamous [sic] Palomino Fino grape which is used in the production of sherry wine, Pedro Ximenez in Montilla Morilles, Albarino used in the creation of the bright, effervescent wines of Galicia, and Verdejo in Rueda. - Source: - Catavino.net
Spain is not in the forefront of winemaking for its dessert wines, other than for its sweet wines from Sherry country including the highly revered Olorosos (when sweetened). But apart from Sherry Spain has a range of styles of dessert wines, ranging from the those made from the Pedro Ximenez grape primarily in Jerez and Montilla-Moriles) to luscious, red dessert wines made in the Mediterranean from the Garnacha (Grenache) grape. Some good Moscatels are made in Mallorca, Alicante and Navarre. The northwest corner of Spain, Galicia, with its bitter Atlantic climate, is even making dessert wines, called “Tostadillos” in the village of Ribadivia (similar to France’s “Vin de Paille”). The Canary Islands have made interesting dessert wines for centuries (they are mentioned by Shakespeare, for example) and in recent years the quality of winemaking has been improved and the Canary Islands wines are being better marketed now. The winemaking styles for “Vinos Dulces” are also diverse, from “Late Harvest” (Vendimia Tardía) to “Fortified Wines” (Fermentación Parcial). Based on in-spain.info.Castilla-La Mancha Castilla-La Mancha (Fundación Ínsula Barataria) |
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