Thursday, August 12, 2010

Penascal Estate, Tempranillo-Shiraz $6


Spain (Castilla y Leon)

I must apologize for not having postings over the past few weeks.  Life, work, travel and such has got in the way.  Non-the-less, I’m back!

It’s not often you think a six dollar bottle of wine is going to do anything for you but I’m never shy to give it try.  Worst case is I use it for a London broil marinated if I don’t like it.  Well this Tempranillo-Shiraz never made it to a marinated!  It was quite the surprise given its price point!

With aromas of cedar, leather and black pepper spice, I had an idea this wine wasn’t going to be boring.  Flavors of blackberry, plum and a hint of strawberries gave this a nice fruit forward taste.  On the finish I’d say it had medium tannins with a trace of black pepper.  The blend is 85% Tempranillo, 15% Shiraz.  It’s definitely an easy drinking wine to go with Italian or Spanish foods.  I found this wine at Sam’s club.

2 comments:

  1. Thanks for posting where you found the wine. That fact alone helps me so much in venturing out and trying different wines that I have read reviews on. Will definitely give this wine a try.

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  2. Very nice, I really liked this Tempranillo as well. Check out my review on it. http://foodwinefuntime.blogspot.com/2011/03/value-wines-always-great-buy.html

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