- Muga Rosado 2009. Bodegas Muga. DOC Rioja (4,92 EUR)
Strawberrilectrical! As the summer goes one this wine too. Non-stop rosé. More!
- Dr. Loosen, Dr. L. 2009. Mosela-Saar-Ruwer (7.3 EUR)
Summertime. Pineapple and lemonade slightly fat due to the sugar touch. Stepbrother with german accent of the locals Castillo de San Diego or maybe Viña Sol or Esmeralda. Enough for the price.
- Blanco Nieva Verdejo 2009. Viñedos de Nieva. DO Rueda (6-7 EUR)
V-e-r-d-e-j-o. It's the name of this game. A verdejo from head to toe. Anis-seed, fruit of passion, pineapple, grass and the expected touch of bitterness. The acidity is there supporting everything.
- Langlois Château Brut Rosé. Crémant de Loire (13.86 EUR)
Coltrane? Who is Coltrane? There was a time when knowin' who's Diana Krall and even having at least one of her CDs was enough for being trendy or even ocassionally fashion. Nowadays you're just a Mr. Nobody unless you have a LP of John Coltrane (vinyl record obviously!) and of course it must be on your desk. You're trendy and everybody must know it! In addition to this you must have recorded in your i-pod everything about Pink Martini. Trendy? Fashion? What the hell! This bubbles are really nice! It's neither Champagne, nor Cava and I don't care whether it's a huge amount of points in any magazine or any critics does it really like or not. We're in the usual hot august and this bubbles are quite refreshing and an easy quaff. Do you want anything else?
- Langlois Château, Cremant de Loire. (9.9 EUR)
Some steps behind its rosé brother. Yep, it's refreshing, but it's also round-shaped with nothing to grab it. Embedded into itself and the bubbles slighlty rough maybe. Enough for the price.
- Domaine Tempier Rosé 2007. AOC Bandol. (22.9 EUR)
Tondonia hue and improve as it breaths. Spicy hints, water melon and touch of biterness and acidity. Steps behing the subtlety so... shortness simply.
- La Bota de Manzanilla Pasada 20 Bota Punta. Navazos
Mandatory. Manzanilla 20? It's the name of the sea rocked. It's impossible not to love this wine 'til the limits of passion. Stopped heart, rented soul and feel the sea as a captive seaman. Deep? Abyssal!
- Tricó 2007. Compañía de Vinos Tricó. DO Rías Baixas. (9-10 EUR)
Hey, it's nice! Wines from Rias Baixas use to be cloying or just forgettable... well... maybe I don't use to remember them 'cos they don't have anything that attracts me. Just me. So well... I would drink some bottles of this stuff. Tropical fruits that goes away before arrive, just fruit, citrical hints, white flowers. Everthing wrapped by the acidity backbone. Really nice with food. More.
- Patio Joven 2009. Vino Tinto de Mesa
Tons (and I mean tons!) of black olives and violet candies. Almost unexistent herbaceous hint finish. Spherical and extremely polished. That (not always so obvious) grape-character that reminds me the Mistela of Josefina Piñol.
- Domaine Chancelle, L'Epine 2008. Lydie et Thierry Chancell. AOC Saumur. (8.4 EUR)
Like a chardonnay at the beginnning… Light and easy, like a chardonnay-for-the-any-dinner-quaff. As days goes by it evolves. Keeps the acidity but with some other hints, some other edges and a touch of roughness. Ok.
- Gravonia Crza. 2000. López de Heredia. DOC Rioja (9 EUR)
(Quite) Young. Yellow prunes, white flowers, coffe and oak. As intense as its acidity. Long. There’s something in the finish that I don’t know how to define. Astringency? Tannins? I don’t know, it’s a sort of texture. It brings to my mind the white wine from Marqués de Murrieta (pre-Capellanía)
- Cueva del Rey 2009. Cueva del Rey, S.L. DO Ycoden-Daute-Isora
Enough. Easy quaff. It brings to my mind a sort of coupage with xarel.lo and albillo. I'm thinking about
Marqués de Alella Clásico and El Níspero.
Regards,
Jose
