Tasting: Tres Ojos Garnacha

• Name: Tres Ojos Garnacha
• Variety: Garnacha
• Region: Calatayud
• Country: Spain
• Year: 2011
• Price: $6.95

Shop Review: This wine has a brick red color with a bouquet of red raspberries, spice and white pepper. The palate is incredibly concentrated and rich. The modern styles of Garnacha in Spain are continuously being perceived worldwide as wines of extraordinarily good quality. This wine is fruity, juicy, and shows a gread depth, ripe tannins, length but yet with wonderful elegance and lightness. Enjoy with sausages, roasted meats, aged cheeses ect.

My Review: This wine has a high alcohol content at 14.5%. It has a fruity and fig smell with a sweeter mid taste and an almost vegetal finish. There were so many tastes in this wine, however they complemented each other well. If all of these flavors had been present throughout the tasting I would not have liked it, but they came one after another, complementing each other nicely and smoothing out the alcohol.

I did not try this wine with food.