Garnarcha
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 [...]
Gran Feudo Rosado 2005
A lot of people will disagree with me, but I think that rose (or rosado in Spanish) is possibly the most versatile food wine. In spring and summer it goes with just about anything, especially seafood and spicy dishes. And it is almost always under $20.
Gran Feudo is an old favorite, its dirt cheap [...]
Bodegas San Alejandro Baltasar Garnacha VV 2003
If you read eBob at all, you will have heard of this wine and its stable mate the Las Rocas. BBB and his grenache loving followers have been crowing about the 2001 vintage of this wine for years now, Bob gave it 93 points. Not bad for an 12 Euro wine. Jancis Robinson is also on board, sprooking [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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