ANOTHER SPANISH BEAUTY AS YOUR MUSE?

This is so unlike us - we laugh in the face of ratings (mostly because they use words like "pain grille"), but it really is a good way to judge a wine, sight unseen.  So, it stands to reason that if we want you to take a few bottles we back it up with some professional musings. Here they are:

90 Points - "Purple-colored, it offers up an alluring aromatic array of pain grille, smoke, violets, black cherry, and blackberry that jumps from the glass. On the palate it is medium to full-bodied with gobs of ripe fruit, succulent flavors, soft tannins, and excellent balance. This lengthy effort over-delivers big-time and is a superb value." 
-Wine Advocate, Jay Miller, February 2009.

"Saturated ruby. Strikingly aromatic nose offers a pungent array of fruit, floral and herbal scents. Sweet cherry-vanilla and cola flavors coat the palate and are enlivened by juicy acidity. Supple tannins gain strength on the finish, which strongly repeats the cola and floral qualities. This is ready to drink." -Stephen Tanzer

Regular Price - $18 a bottle

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meet the vine

100% Head Pruned Tempranillo
...that rolls off the tongue, right? It looks like the rhododendron you cut back again in your yard last year that tries every spring to come back.  And i know, we dwell on this old vine stuff.  But what this really is is an old wise vine of tempranillo in the La Mancha.  Just like people, an old vine is wise and it knows itself better and it trusts itself more and it cuts right to the chase.  It provides structure, balance and weathers the climate changes from vintage to vintage.  The result is a bit of a guarantee because old vines are established, they don't change anymore, they just make concentrated, structured, interesting and character driven wines despite drought, heavy rain, hail and the like.  Don't you wish everyone was like that?