No wine snobs here, just enthusiastic drinkers of all wines
Another Ochoa wine from the Adriana Series. A red wine made from 30% Tempranillo, 30% Graciano, 30% Merlot, 10% Garnacha oaked for 9 months in a mix of French and American barrels. It has a pale colour somewhere between garnet and purple with a light to medium scent of fresh red berries and a hint … Continue reading Ochoa 8A La Foto de 1938, 2015
The second wine from the Bodegas Ochoa wine tasting at Vinopremier.com. This is a rose wine from the Javier Ochoa collection. It is made from a blend of Garnacha, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon grapes and apparently contains very low sulphites of onky 20mg. A pale rose pink colour with perhaps a hint of garnet. It … Continue reading Ochoa Lágrima Rosa 2019
The third wine from the Bodegas Frontonio wine tasting at Madrid & Darracott and our first red wine if the night. It is one if Frontonio's newest wine from land recently obtained in the D.O. Campo De Borja. All the Borja wines are made underground in a cave (la cueva de Arom) and have names … Continue reading Cuevas de Arom Pedra Forca 2016
This is the third wine I've tried from the Bodegas Malvajio stable. A red wine made from 90% Syrah and 10% Garnacha. As with the other two, I loved it, which is unusual because the Syrah grape variety usually produces wines that are too spicy for me. Not this time. Flor de Malvajio has a … Continue reading Flor de Malvajio Flor 2017
The second wine at the Wines From the Levante tasting at Madrid & Darracott. A red wine from the Priorat region which has some of the most difficult soil in which to grow vines. It is this struggle that often brings out the best in the grapes. Priorat is one of only two wine regions … Continue reading Peites 2014
Back to our origins of Spanish wines for a bit. Back in early August I went to a wine tasting at Madrid & Darracott showcases wines from the Levante Region if Spain which encompasses the coastline of Cataluña and Valencia. There are some great white wines to be had from this region the best known … Continue reading Acústic Blanc 2016
The third wine from the Tobelos Bodega wine tasting at vinopremier.com this time made from 100% Garnacha grapes. It is fermented in concrete eggs and then matured for 14 months in American and French second use 500l oak barrels. It's good to be able to compare a pure Garnacha Crianza and a pure Tempranillo Crianza … Continue reading Tobelos Garnacha 2015
So I broke my own method of trying the Gran Reserva wine in each Bodega we visited, because the very helpful guy at this Bodega made this wine sound fantastic. It is their flagship wine. It is made from grapes on the oldest vines (over 50 years) and from the best vineyards. It is only … Continue reading Gomez Cruzado Honorable 2015
The first of two Gran Reserva wines from the Bodegas Muga. I'm not actually sure what vintage this wine was, because the lady whipped away the bottle so quickly I didn't have time to look at it never mind photograph it. I had to borrow the photo from the Bodega's website, which currently lists the … Continue reading Prado Enea Gran Reserva
This is the Gran Reserva offering from the Contino brand of the CVNE Winery. The Contino vineyards are based in Altavesa at a lower level than their other premium range, Imperial, and 2012 was a wetter year. According to the helpful man at CVNE this means warmer weather so less acidity and tannins. More fruit and … Continue reading Contino Gran Reserva 2012
