Spanish Natural Wines with importer Jose Pastor

Terroir, San Francisco
Tasted Thursday, June 4, 2009 by 5laton with 1,095 views

Flight 1 - Bodegas Argüeso (Sanlucar de Barrameda) (3 Notes)

Flight 2 - Forja del Salnes (Rías Baixas) (3 Notes)

  • 2008 Bodegas Forjas del Salnes Rías Baixas Leirana

    Spain, Galicia, Rías Baixas

    Super fresh green aromatics with greengage, herbaceous green pea, mandarin. Lots of bright green-peachy fruit and very tart citric acidity. Very light in body. Not really working for me tonight; this really needs warmer weather for full enjoyment.

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  • 2007 Bodegas Forjas del Salnes Rías Baixas Goliardo Caiño

    Spain, Galicia, Rías Baixas

    Friendly aromas of green tobacco leaf, bright red carbonic cherry fruits. Fresh palate with juicy acidity and lighter concentration. Simple red cherry fruits, a little too much carbonic froot for my taste. Friendly about sums it up.

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  • 2006 Bodegas Forjas del Salnes Loureiro Rías Baixas Goliardo

    Spain, Galicia, Rías Baixas

    Nose has some reduction with blue fruits, dried herbs, tobacco. Juicy acids, with nice blue fruits and a crushed stone sort of minerality. Nice grippy finish without being particularly tannic. I quite liked this in a Loire cot sort of vein.

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Flight 3 - Señorío de P. Peciña (Rioja) (3 Notes)

  • 2008 Bodegas Hermanos Peciña Rioja Señorío de P. Peciña Joven

    Spain, La Rioja, Rioja

    Stinky, reductive/animale nose. Classic style, with dried herbs, soft red fruits, really quite nice and complex for a joven. Very soft and ready to drink per the style. Turns savory on the finish with dried herbs, pepper. Tasty, easy.

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  • 1999 Bodegas Hermanos Peciña Rioja Señorío de P. Peciña Reserva

    Spain, La Rioja, Rioja

    Lifted aromatics of coconut, strawberry liqueur, dried herbs, rock candy, old wood. In the mouth, flavors of strawberry liqueur and tobacco with fine minerality and great lift from the acidity. American oak flavors take over on the back of the palate with spice, coconut and vanilla. Medium concentration and length. Didn't care for the nose (too much coconut) but I liked this quite a bit otherwise.

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  • 1998 Bodegas Hermanos Peciña Rioja Señorío de P. Peciña Gran Reserva

    Spain, La Rioja, Rioja

    More elegant nose than the '99 Reserva, with mostly game and smoked meat notes and some old wood. Very complex palate with aging meats, tobacco, strawberry liqueur and darker fruits and some coconut. There's some palate sweetness due to the intense concentration here but it finishes dry. Very long. Really impressive.

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Flight 4 - Primitivo Quiles (Alicante) (2 Notes)

  • 2003 Primitivo Quiles Alicante Raspay Reserva

    Spain, Valencia, Alicante

    Monastrell. Nose of soft red fruits, wood spice, cough syrup, orange peel and red fruits. Somewhat oxidized; smells a bit like a ruby Port. A sherry, aldehydic note takes over immediately in the mouth but there's also a lot of fig and dark fruits and spice. Some warmth from alcohol is apparent. Not really for me, but interesting stuff.

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  • NV Primitivo Quiles Alicante Raspay Reserva

    Spain, Valencia, Alicante

    This is wild stuff, a blended-vintage monastrell made using a solera system started in 1948. Intense sherry nose of walnuts, toffee. Striking palate: nutty, mineral, quite austere, dark-hued yet with very little fruit. In style this is somewhere between tawny Port and an amontillado sherry, if made from black grapes. Good length. Not something I'd seek out, but respect.

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Flight 5 - And a nightcap (1 Note)

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