2016 Garage Wine Co. Lot #79 Garnacha field blend Bagual Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 93.3 points

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View OttawaB's profile
  • Report Issue

  7/7/2023 - OttawaB Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Big fruited wine but not OTT. Raspberry and blackcherries, and darker sour berry fruit. Medium weight. Not a heavy or plodding wine. Some freshness to it. Zingy acidity +. Lots of herbal tones but of the sage/garrigue variety but more like basil/thyme/spearmint. This is different. Sweet fruited drying dusty slightly chewy tannins mainly coming through on the finish. Medium length to the finish. The wine becomes much nicer when you let the sips linger and savour.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View AndrewSGHall's profile
  • Report Issue

  8/20/2022 - AndrewSGHall wrote: 96 Points

  Eight mos later and I will go even harder. This is a fucking Jungle Bird in a wine bottle. Intense combo of fruit, bitters and a deep hogo base note. Just brilliant.

  2 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View M.Batard's profile
  • Report Issue

  1/20/2022 - M.Batard wrote: 91 Points

  I was intending to hold this until I pulled a mature Priorat from my cellar, but the need arose for a pairing with spicy red meat, so popped and poured. First impression was of dish soap, which was not a good start. But over the evening, as others have observed, it becomes much more interesting. Black cherries and sour cherries, with lively acidity and plenty of tannins. Really stood up to sweet potato fries w/ spicy garlic-chili mayonnaise, along with peppered sausages—a good companion. Will buy more, and both re-test and hold for some bottle age…Likely GV!

  1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View AndrewSGHall's profile
  • Report Issue

  1/11/2022 - AndrewSGHall wrote: 94 Points

  Really dynamic. Started off as a solid crunchy red with red fruits and a nice acidic base. A little stemmy. Nice, but not special. With time - ~2-3 hrs - this went off the chain with Tiki drink elements swirling around Angostura bitters. Chewy acids in great balance, flamed lime rinds and serious hogo skank rasta ho jam. Last sip was like the final days of the Kahiki. Dug the hell out of this wine.

  1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment

Professional reviews have copyrights and you can view them here for your personal use only as private content. To view pro reviews you must either subscribe to a pre-integrated publication or manually enter reviews below. Learn more.