#iberian blend

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Vega or Gremlin?

Cloying, fruit-forward nose, a chubby, purple-hued bubble-gum bouquet cheap and supermarket-y: a crowd-friendly, “Yay-wine!” presentation I detest in a wine. Tinted with dime-store perfume and plasticine, hard-candy sweetness, it lacks any sort of depth or complexity. For a wine advertising so much BDX-component, it is difficult to grasp the lack of seriousness or even a lean towards typicity.…

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Per Diem

I’m always torn when I taste a wine with some age whether I want it to taste old or young. Let’s reverse the perspective: Which is the bigger disappointment? I know you’re reading this going, “Jesus, Steve, are you off your rocker?” But stay with me here. You open a 10YO wine and you’re going: “Oh man this is going to be so gorgeous” and under the cork is a liquid vibrant and fresh as Day 1 with…

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The Girl From Iberia

At the expense of going all Cinderella story on you, I have to admit I was a bit skeptical of this orphan. I hate to say “I wasn’t expecting much” but I had deep reservations for where it might be. Just stunning wine from the first sniff. Rich and leathery, deep polished fruit balled up and exploding with spice and caramel. Dark, dense spice: candied cinnamon and nutmeg and cardamom wrapped…

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Adelaida Peninsula

Black burgundy and glass-staining with thin bright-pink edges. Big rosy burnt-blood nose ridiculously concentrated, dense and caking with all the visions of black cherry, cola, cassis and blackberry imaginable, all wrapped around conflicting images of sharp brittle mineral and dull curvy cellar.

If this is Tempranillo- or Garnacha-based, it is the most lavish, decadent, other-worldly version of…

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