Top Spanish Wines
Posted by Theo Heselmans on October 14th, 2007
Around this time of the year I get slapped with invitations for wine tastings. I went to 2 of them yesterday.
Vinogil replaced half of their selection, and presented a couple of nice new Australian wines (Didgiridoo). Their Chilean (Montgras) and South-African (Bleue Allée and Schoone Gevel) wines luckily remained.
Afterwards I went to the tasting of La Buena Vida, a big importer of (great) Spanish wines. As they exist 10 years, this was the place to be: many winemakers, nice food, and top wine.
I tasted around 50 wines (drank almost nothing !). The overall quality was excellent.
3 of them stood out though:
- Trasnocho 2003
(Remirez de Ganuza, DOC Rioja, 71 EUR) - Cirsion 2004
(Roda, DOC Rioja, 149 EUR) - Unico Gran Reserva 1996
(Vega Sicilia, DO Ribera del Duero, 210 EUR)
I was fortunate and grateful to be able to taste them.
Too bad they far exceed my budget !
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Comments (2)
Glad its not just my budget that'd be blown! I nearly had a fright when I saw those prices!
Question though, did you know the prices before you tried them?
Oh, and glad you liked them! ;-)
@Simon
Yes I knew the prices upfront. Didn't change my judgment: Excellent wines, but I could never give that price for a bottle. I drank other excellent (read cheaper) Spanish wines, but it was a thrill to be able to drink these famous wines.
BTW prices for older Vega Sicilia exceed 500 EUR !