Variety: Garnacha
Region: Calatayud
Country: Spain
Year: 2009
Price: $6.95
Vintage Cellar Review: Bright ruby color. Primary dark berry aromas are simple but offer very good purity and focus. Juicy blackberry and bitter cherry flavors are youthfully tangy, with good back-end acidity adding snap. The clean, brisk finish leaves behind notes of sweet dark berry preserves and cracked pepper.
My Review: I wish my nose was better at picking up different scents because all I got was berry and pepper for the aroma, but you can see from the above description its a lot more than just "berry". You can really feel the tannins in this wine alluding to its young age and I could really taste the hotness of the alcohol. Personally I like my wines to be a bit smoother than this one but if you like a wine with a bit of bite this one would work for you. Also a comment on the "old vines" labeled on this bottle: there is no set age to be an old vine, I've been told it could be anything between 20-100 years so don't think much into a bottle labeled "old vines" there's too wide a range of old for it to really mean anything.
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