Variety: Monastrell (Mourvedre)
Region: Jumilla
Country: Spain
Year: 2010
Price: $9.95
Vintage Cellar's Notes: 4 months in new American oak barrels
Bright ruby-red. Dried cherry, pipe tobacco and rose aromas, with a hint of woodsmoke. Sweet and fleshy on the palate, with
blackberry and cherry flavors complimented by licorice and a
suggestion of dried herbs. The cherry and smoke notes repeat on
the finish.
This was another decently complex wine that I enjoyed. It smelled, oddly enough, like cooking meat, like maybe ground turkey, some kind of lean meat. It was a bit smoky and just by smelling I could tell this wine had probably been aged in oak at some point. Not a lot of fruit flavors in this one, a little bit of dried fruit flavors though, like cherry fruit leather. This was a little too much oak for me, especially because I felt it wasn't balanced well enough with other flavors to make the oak tastes appealing.
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