Campo de Borja
Coto de Hayas Rosado 2007
The rosado campaign continues…I think I’ve run out of things to say about rosado. So instead I’ll talk about Spanish national day tomorrow (12th of October). A good excuse to cook up a pealla and drink something Spanish. That’s my plan anyway. If you’re out and about, Rathdowne cellars are having a tasting on Sunday, including Telmo’s big gun from Ribera del Duero, Matallana. It’s free, so what are you waiting for.
Coto de Hayas Tinto 2006
We are coming into BBQ season at the moment and this a good wine to kick things off. Grab some lamb chops and a bottle of this to kick off a quiet night at home mid week. Maybe some a salad if you want to be healthy. This is a joven wine, made mostly from [...]
Coto de Hayas Crianza 2003
An interesting blend of 60% Garnarcha and 40% Tempranillo from Campo de Borja. It gets 8 months in French oak. I seem to prefer the straight Garnarcha wines from this region more, but this was a good mid-week glug for the price.
Deep, dark red in the centre of the glass, with some purple moving towards the edges. [...]
Telmo Rodriguez Pegaso Garnacha 2003
For some reason I haven't seen this wine around town, its kind of been under the radar. More likely I'm just not going to the right places. Anyway, its a cracking wine, one of the best garnarchas I've seen. Pegaso is produced from an old vineyard, high in the hills of Castille near a little [...]
Coto de Hayas Reserva 2002
Another wine from the Garnarcha Empire. I'm finding wines from Campo de Borja are becoming a bit of a favourite for me. They are consistently very good, intriguing wines that have bags of character and layers of flavour. This one is made from old vine Garnarcha and aged in a mix of American and French [...]
Coto de Hayas Garnarcha Centenaria 2004
We went out to a tasting of the 04 Penfolds at Boccaccio last night and bought home a bottle of the 138 GSM to taste along side this wine. Not fair on the Penfolds really, this wine is made from 100 year old vines in a completely different style and a step up in price [...]
Coto de Hayas Rosado 2005
While its still warm I thought I'd have a look at some more Rosados. I have two from very different areas of Spain, but both very good. This one is from Campo de Borja and its made from a mix of Garnacha, Tempranillo and Cabernet. The free run juice has 6 hours on skins.
I [...]
Alto Moncayo 2003
The last in my Garnacha trio from Campo de Borja, and I have saved the best for last. This is the mid level wine from this bodega, the top flight Aquilon was not made in 2003. A slight step up in price from the Veraton, this wine drinks like it has seem a lot more work [...]
Alto Moncayo Veraton 2003
Wine number two in the Garnacha Trilogy. Alto Monayo produce 3 levels of wines, this is the first rung on the ladder. The venture is the brainchild of Jorge Ordonez who has Chris Ringland doing the wine making. Again the wine is 100% Garnacha, there doesn't appear to be a lot of oak treatment on this one. [...]
Borsao Tres Picos 2004
This is the first of three wines I tried over the weekend from Campo de Borja. All three are Garnacha, the leading grape from this region. From the stats I have it looks like most of the wines from Campo de Borja head out of Spain to the US, Parker is a big fan of [...]
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