#carinena

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🇪🇸 🍷 Happy Monday! Enjoying this delicious 2020 Monasterio de las Viñas Reserva (89 pts, $17) from Spain. This blend of Garnacha, Tempranillo, Cariñena, and Cabernet Sauvignon arrived in LCBO VINTAGES last month. Full review: https://rebrand.ly/141csd6

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I Love Grenache

This is a really pretty wine if you don’t look at it too hard, but with asterisks for those delving deeper. I was hesitant to try because of the “Old-Vine Garnacha” on the incredible linen front label, plus the winery-applied JS91 sticker is something I avoid like the plague. Beautiful deep purple-ruby with a thin line of amber at the far rim, a nose at first sharply old-world but a glowing thick…

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LULZ

10 YO Crianza??? Can’t be good, right? And yes, I know it’s not ten. And ridiculously inexpensive. We’re talkin under 20 bucks. Found it laying around and had to give it a shot. Deep garnet in the pour, bricking heavily and not much nose. Some minty eucalyptus jumps out, layered on roasted meat and tired, poached fruit. Grippy in mouthfeel, copious tannin etch all surfaces from the entry on.…

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Self Ranch

Another of my favorite California *heritage* varieties, Amy Butler makes wine for a variety of labels in Paso Robles and this is her personal label. At one time THE most heavily-planted wine grape in California AND South France, where it served the outstanding purpose of filling and amending more expensive varieties–and that speaks to its chameleon, yet un-obtrusive characteristics. I love…

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B Squared

One of the more decadent, robust versions of this variety I have seen, not remembering one this big since Amy Butler’s beast a couple years ago. Dark, perfect even-toned ruby in the glass. Rhubarb pie, chocolate syrup, blackstrap and oak create a nose fully deserving of the “Reserve” stamp. Everything about it fairly screams LUXURY, something not often seen with lowly Carignan. Equally rich in…

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[moreisasmith]

2020 Coronavirus House Arrest Day 121 - LAUSD officially said students won't be returning for in-person classes this upcoming school year and instead will continue online sessions! With the bar officially open until we are free to fully roam uninhibited, tonight's elixir is this bottle of wine: The latest under $15-priced find... a real cork with a dark pink color, citrus strawberry aroma, low body, light citrus jammy taste, clean finish, slight sour fruit aftertaste, and low astringency - a 2019 #GrenacheRose Paired with homemade quinoa-stuffed poblano peppers and streaming "Law & Order: SVU" reruns on @Hulu. Continue to stay safe, wash your hands, and drink plenty of liquids (07/14/20)! . . . @ElTerranoWine #Carinena #Spain @WholeFoods #RoseWine #Wine #Vino #Cheers #WineLover #WineTasting (at Silver Lake) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCp0T0Bjk6r/?igshid=1w409964rjg3m

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Full Circle

Dark and brooding with an abrupt edge, it takes an immediate turn in the nose towards lusciousness, broken stem and super-ripe fruit. A ridge of sweet-briar arches through the middle, dragging a peaty-toasty oak influence along. And everywhere, a plush pillow of fruit.

In the mouth, a richness not often seen from this variety. Remember though: it is 30% Cab. Carignan can be made in 2 or 3…

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Les trois vins de la semaine

Du monastrell au grenache en passant par le carignan et le tempranillo, ce ne sont pas les cépages qui manquent en Espagne. Voici trois vins plutôt différents mais qui viennent tous de ce pays où les aubaines pullulent.

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Monasterio de las Vinas, Old vines garnacha,  2015, Espagne

Ce qui est bien avec le grenache espagnol, c’est qu’on tombe parfois…

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