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Alto Moncayo

Alto Moncayo
2020 Veraton, Garnacha, Campo de Borja

Pair this wine with:
Beef Cheese Pasta Pork

Category: Grenache

Date Tasted:
Country: Spain
Alcohol: 15.5%
93 Points
Gold Medal
Exceptional
$19
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Alto Moncayo
2020 Veraton, Garnacha, Campo de Borja

Pair this wine with:
Beef Cheese Pasta Pork

Category: Grenache

Date Tasted:
Country: Spain
Alcohol: 15.5%
Burnt sienna color. Aromas and flavors of chocolate covered cherries, leather, sweet cherry tobacco, and dark roast coffee with a round, crisp, dryish medium body and a warming, interesting, medium-length finish with accents of cherry mole sauce, fig jam, cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, and and leather with medium tannins and light oak flavor. Bold and ripe with well integrated oak; sure to be a crowd pleaser.

Tasting Info

Wine Glass Style: Juicy & Smooth
Aroma Aroma: chocolate covered cherries, leather, sweet cherry tobacco, and dark roast coffee
Taste Flavor: Same as aromas with accents of cherry mole sauce, fig jam, cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, and and leather
Sweetness Sweetness: Dryish
Enjoy Enjoy: Now-3 years on its own and with food
Recipes Pairing: Baked Ham, Meat Loaf, Lasagna
Bottom Line Bottom Line: Bold and ripe with well integrated oak; sure to be a crowd pleaser.

The Producer

Bodegas Borsao

The Producer
Center National 122, KM 63
Borja, 50540
Spain
34 -976867116

Grenache

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Serve in a Zinfandel Wine Glass
Grenache is the world's most widely planted red variety, yet its fame is primarily as a blending variety. The most famous examples are in the Rhone Valley as part of Châteauneuf-du-Pape and Gigondas, in Spain (where it is known as Garnacha) in Priorat reds, and in Australia, where it is often blended with Shiraz.

Grenache on its own is a light red wine; indeed there are numerous versions of Grenache rosé from France and Spain' respectively, these wines are Tavel and Navarra Rosé. Tannins are very light and aromas are of wild strawberry, rhubarb and geranium.

There are also small amounts of Grenache grown in Italy (in Sardinia, as Cannonau) and the United States.