mostly tasting new vintages of wines that are in the store
2008 Atteca Garnacha Spain...in the past this wine has been more robust and full bodied... still a nice wine but a lighter style..nice long lasting dark fruit flavors but no big finish.
2008 Velvet Devil Merlot Washington..made by Charles Smith of K Vintners fame..this is a young wine showiing green vegetal flavors that should become better after some time in the bottle. a touch of cocoa on the end..
2008 Vega Sindoa El Chaparral Garnacha Navarra...this was the wine of the day...for the money much better than the Atteca..mouthfilling..ripe and not over the top flavors...
2007 Trentadue Merlot Alexander Valley stinky feet..nice texture on the wine..supple finish.. needs some time to grow up though.. new label
2007 L'Aventure Optimus Paso Robles.. this was the wine I thought would be my fav and it disappointed...even though 5% more syrah than cab the cab comes through. in the nose and palate...no syrah influence at all...lots of oak.. and some alcohol on the tongue even though it had only 14.7 alcohol..
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