OK. I don't know about the rest of you, but I totally get why 4 - 6 pm, Monday thru Friday, is called "Happy Hour." When I've had a hell of a day like I had today, I just want to come home, bust open the wine fridge & pour a glass or two of a school night wine. A school night wine, according to the wine lord Gary Vaynerchuk, is a "wine under ten bucks that goes well with soccer-mom stand-bys like pizza & pasta." This whole blog is dedicated to school night wines, but that's another matter.
This is a big, big wine on the nose. The scent of black pepper is out of control! It's the first thing I notice about this wine, even before its color, which is a gorgeous purple-ruby shade. On the glass, this wine sits for about 20 seconds, then begins to form legs. I smell some raspberries coming through after the black pepper, which I have to say is a nice combination. And I don't even smell the alcohol, which is a tough feat to accomplish, especially with this wine's 14% alcohol content.
On the palate, this wine has some big, bad-ass grape jam flavors, with that strong pepper component coming through on the finish. This wine has a great weight & mouthfeel (I freakin' HATE that word). If I were blind-folded & given this wine to drink, I would think it was an Australian shiraz in this $15 - $20 range, not a Spanish grenache for under $8. Truly, this is a great wine at a phenomenal price. Life-changing stuff. I highly recommend it to everyone. And if every winery made a wine like this one, with such complexity & good taste, with a higher alcohol content at a great price, well, we'd probably have world peace. I'll raise another glass to that.
Cheers!
Kate
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