No wine snobs here, just enthusiastic drinkers of all wines
Another great find from my trips to Malaga. This is a white Riojan wine made from 100% Viura. According to the website it is fruity and floral and intense from cold maceration and bleeding. I personally thought this wine had spent time in a barrel as it was full bodied and oily. However the website … Continue reading Azpilicueta
It’s not often I have leftover wine. What’s the point of opening a bottle if you’re not going to finish it? But it does happen on occasion and it feels so wrong to down it down the sink after a week. So here is an article with some ideas of what to do. I like … Continue reading What To Do With LeftOver Wine
One if several red wines from this 15 year old bodega in the Matarraña area of Teruel. Despite their young age this bodega has good reviews of many of its wines. This young red wine is 100% Garnacha. It has a ruby red colour with purple hints and a medium scent of cherry yoghurt. It’s … Continue reading Lagar D’Amprius Garnacha 2016
Although Teruel is not a major wine producing region this should not put you off visiting. It is a beautiful area and according to the article below from ‘the local’ it’s capital city has the highest number of wine bars per person 53 per 100k people. Mind you this mainly because the Teruel region is … Continue reading Teruel and Wine
My second red wine from the Teruel region. This time from a Bodega just outside of Valderrobres. Made from a blend of six grapes and aged in French oak for 3 years. It has a light ruby red colour and a medium intense scent. It smells of red berries with a hint of dark chocolate. … Continue reading Ventus 2015
Currently spending a few days in Teruel and thought I’d try the local wines. This one from Rubielos de Mora is an artesan wine made from Garnacha and Tempranillo, the a Spanish classics. It has the purple colour I expect of Spanish reds and a medium scent which is a bit astringent on the nose … Continue reading Rubus 2019
It is difficult to get good information about this Spanish grape variety. The problem is there are many grapes in Spain with this name: albillo mayor, albillo real, albillo toro, albillo criollo ….. To be honest I’m still not sure if they’re genetic variants or all the same grape. The best article I’ve found is … Continue reading Albillo Grape Variety
Below is an interesting article by wine-searcher.com on this grape variety most associated with Sherry. It’s not a grape I’ve paid much attention to as I don’t like fortified wines or sweet wines. However in the last year I’ve had two dry whites made exclusively from this grape and enjoyed both. Apparently it is hard … Continue reading Pedro Ximenez Grape Variety
This is not a wine area that I know at all. Based in the area south of Cordoba, it was news to me they cultivated wine. This is probably because the area is known for its sweet dessert wines, which I don’t like. However I recently tried a nice dry white Wine from this region, … Continue reading DO Montilla-Moriles
The Catalan region of Spain has 10 Denominación de Origen (DO) wine areas including one, Priorat, which is a level up at Denominación de Origen Qualificada (DOQ). The DO Cataluña seems to be a catch all for those wines not made in these regions. That doesn’t mean there are some great wines under this DO. … Continue reading DO Cataluña
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