While this didn’t quite hit the high notes of the Mataro, it’s another nice wine. Just 852 bottles made.
Lifted red fruit nose. Real Grenachey raspberries, with some whole bunch brick dust perhaps? Slightly warm palate is fleshy yet just a little syrupy at the edges. Has an easy charm and I like the varietal signature here, even if it is a bit diffuse. Best drinking: 2016-2022. 17/20, 90/100. 14.2%, $28. Would I buy it? I’d go a glass.
At 18, I started working in a small suburban bottleshop, largely to buy cheap beer. It was my first year of university, slogging through physics and chemistry, so a liquor shop seemed like fun. But then, I fell in love with wine and craft beer, and it took over my life.
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