Name: Montebuena
Variety: 100% Tempranillo
Region: Rioja
Country: Spain
Year: 2010
Price: $8.95
Wine Shop Review: Ripe cherry and blackcurrant on the nose and in the mouth. Pliant and seamless in texture, with good heft and back-end energy. Finishes smooth and sweet, with fine-grained tannins providing shape and grip. Still on the young side but this wine drinks very well with an hour or so of decanting; it’s an excellent value for Rioja.
My Review: This wine had kind of a lighter red color. I thought the nose had a kind of cocoa/caramel element that I have picked up in a few wines that I've tried recently, but the taste seemed rather far from this. It had an earthy element that seems to be a characteristic of Tempranillo, and it also had a tannic, more stingy alcohol flavor rather than the fruit flavors that maybe would have helped to balance the hotness of the wine. Not bad, but overall not one I would buy.
I did not have food with this.
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