Community Tasting Note

Jay Hack wrote:

Friday, June 29, 2012 - With Juan and Nola Palomar at Berserkerfest at PDH. The Palomars brought a "boatload" of their wine, including this, plus a tempranillo, a cabernet and a red blend. They were all good, but this was my favorite. Vijiriega (Vee-hee-ree-ay-gah) is a variety indigenous to the region of Granada in Spain and according to Nola, no one else vinifies it. My Google research does not contradict her. The wine has a floral nose and a meaty flavor profile that surprised me. There is minerality, apple fruit and a tropical component. There was a half bottle left (there was a lot of other wine to try) so we recorked it, brought it home and threw it in the refrigerator. We opened it 5 days later and although it had lost some of its lively fruit, it maintained that meaty minerality. I noticed some banana on the nose that I had not noticed the first day. The rest of the bottle did a quick disappearing act among me, my wife and my son.

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