Pago Casa del Blanco Merlot-Tempranillo-Petite Verdot 2006
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Pairs well with game meat casseroles, cured cheese, stuffed peppers, lasagna, roasted meats, such as leg of lamb, pork, tederloin, grilled steak...
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The 2006 Quixote Merlot (60%) – Tempranillo (20%) – Petit Verdot (20%) spent 12 months in French and American oak. Opaque purple in color, it offers up a sexy aromatic array of Asian spices, incense, cherry blossom, violets, black currants, and blackberry. Smooth-textured, layered, ripe, and pleasure-bent, this well-balanced savory offering will evolve for several years but can be approached now.
Spanish red wine is known for being bold, heady, rustic and age-worthy, Spain is truly a one-of-a-kind wine-producing nation. A great majority of the country is hot, arid and drought-ridden, and since irrigation has only been recently introduced and (controversially) accepted, viticulture has sustained—and flourished—only through a great understanding of Spain’s particular conditions. Large spacing between vines allows each enough resources to survive and as a result, the country has the most acreage under vine compared to any other country, but is usually third in production.
Of the Spanish red wines, the most planted and respected grape variety is Tempranillo, the star of Spain’s Rioja and Ribera del Duero regions. Priorat specializes in bold red blends, Jumilla has gained global recognition for its single varietal Monastrell and Utiel-Requena has garnered recent attention for its reds made of Bobal.