Vina Borgia

[stevebody]

Yes, yes, yes...can you believe this stuff? What could the winery possibly be making on each bottle? Spanish Grenache has become one of my fave preoccupations, with the Borgia, that wonderful Alma, the Vina Alarba, and about half a dozen others. All cheap and all big, spicy, warm, and amazingly friendly. It's interesting, too, to note the difference between the same grape vinified just across the Pyrenees in France and the ones from northern Spain. The sheer size of the wine, without any attempt to restrain it, is amazing. The French ones taste positively stingy by comparison but are, of course, more complex, for the most part.

The Spanish, as I'm fond of saying to my customers, ain't into delayed gratification. My kinda folks...