No wine snobs here, just enthusiastic drinkers of all wines
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
This is the third wine from the Madrid & Darracott Lockdown Virtual Tastings (box number two). A Rose wine made from 100% Tempranillo. It has a pale strawberry pink colour with a lovely scent of strawberry/raspberry jam and flinty stone. This is a refreshing dry wine with a medium body and good lingering finish. It … Continue reading Floritura Rosado 2019
Another wine from the winetastimgljubjana.com at Dvorni bar. Cvicek Rose wines are specific to Slovenia. They must come from the Dolenjska region and be made from the grape varieties: Láski Reisling (reisling), kraljevina, Modra Frankinja (Blaufränkisch) and Zametna crnina (Zametovka). Most Rose wines are made from red wine grape varieties. The grape juice is left … Continue reading Martincic Cvicek 2018
The second wine at the Bodegas Valbusenda wine tasting at vinopremier.com. This time their intro level Rose. Valbusenda has two ranges of wine: the Abios entry level young wine and the Valbusenda select wines. This wine is made from 100% Tinto de Toro. It is a very pale rose pink Going slightly to salmon. It … Continue reading Abios Rose 2018
The second wine from the Colourfulwines.com wine tasting hosted by TomeVinos.com. The theme of this wine tasting was Spring Wines and this little Rose certainly meets that requirement. In fact it would be a good summer wine. The bodega is based in the D.O. Toro but this wine does make the D.O. qualification because it … Continue reading Bodegas Frontaura Rose 2018 edición limitada
The second wine from the Bodega Madrid Romero wine tasting at Madrid & Darracott. This time the rose from the Tres Calas series blended to represent the daughter. This Garnacha-Monastrell rosé wine from the collection represents the beauty personified in Martina Madrid, the third generation of the family. Delicate and feminine, pale, with the intense … Continue reading Tres Calas Rosado 2017
Another wine from the wine tasting at my house last week. A rose this time. I think I bought this one from carrefour as it was in a list of recommended supermarket wines in el Pais en Ingles. I tend to associate Rose Wines with picnics and eating outdoors in summer. There's something about the … Continue reading Conde de Caralt Rosado
Stranded at Standsted airport whilst the striking French leave my plane delayed by one and a half hours. I've finally caved and nipped into Weatherspoons for a glass of wine. This is not a pub I'm fond of on the whole but the choices here are few. There's your typical champagne bar (bit above my … Continue reading Mud House Sauvignon Blanc Rose
The second wine at the Colourfulwines.com Wine & Chocolate tasting. This is a dry Rose sparkling wine made organically from the Spanish stalwart grape: Garnacha. Cava is the only Spanish DO that isn't geographically based. The majority of Cava is produced in Cataluña, but this particular wine is from Valencia. The first Valencian Cava I … Continue reading Art de Luna Cava Brut Rose Orgánico
