Archive for August, 2006
Conde de Valdemar Reserva 2000
I've been amazed at the number of new wines I've found since I started Tinto y Blanco. Perhaps I just wasn't looking hard enough, but there seems to have been a large increase in the number of Spainish wines available around town, a great thing for a Spanish wine geek like me. I've had a [...]
Marques de Velilla Tinto Joven 2004
Joven wines from Ribera del Duero are one of my favorite styles, lots of fresh fruit and very enjoyable. This one is a little bit different, I don't normally find a lot of chocolate in wines from Ribera but I liked it in this wine. At around $20 it is fair value. This one is [...]
Primitivo Quiles Moscatel
I stopped off to pick up something to drink with chocolate cake at home and found this little gem. There's not much info on the bottle, not even a region other than "Produce of Spain" or a vintage, but that didn't stop me. A goldern hay colour with a nose of rasins mixed with orange peel. [...]
Torres Coronas 2003
Just a quick note on this one. The Torres wines are another one of those wines that just about everyone knows, kind of like Penfolds in Australia. They make wine at all levels, but they are best known in Australia for this one and Sangre de Toro. Many of their wines come in screwcap, this [...]
Marques de Riscal 1860 2004
Marques de Riscal have branched out from their home base in Rioja with a couple of projects, this one just outside of DO Toro and a white wine project in DO Rueda. I haven't tried any of the whites as yet, but this one is quite interesting. Made from Tinto de Toro, the wine sees [...]
Sierra Cantabria Reserva 2001
I don't like to admit it, but I am a terrioristo. I like the fact that wines are a product of their environment and I'm not too keen on industrial type wines. This wine presented me with a bit of a challenge in that it is a very modern style that tastes like tempranillo, but does [...]
Coto de Hayas Reserva 2001
Grenacha is the queen of Campo de Borja, in fact the regulator for the DO is calling the place 'the Granacha Empire', sounds like a good catch phrase to put on a license plate. This is a co-op wine and a very good one at that. These guys produce about 30 wines from local and [...]
Palacios Remondo Rioja La Montesa 2003
Its been one of those weeks, too much work, not enough drinking! I stopped off on my way home and picked up this little gem, which was nice, but I also found a couple of Spanish wines I have not seen before. Bonus. Just a quick note on this one, but it is the 50th tasting [...]
Marques de Riscal Reserva 2001
I’ve been drinking old school Rioja all this week, so I thought that I’d finish off with one of the classics. Marques de Riscal has been around for ages and it is one of the best known Spanish wines. It was also one of the first Spanish wines I tasted, I remember wandering around the [...]
Marques de Caceres Gran Reserva 1989
Its not often that you walk into a bottle shop and find a 17 year old wine for $30. The strange thing is, there seems to be a fair bit of this wine getting around town at the moment. Perhaps someone discovered a hidden cache of it somewhere? The bad news is this was the [...]
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