what was the last wine...

[megawill]

you had that you heard good things about or was highly rated by a trusted source that you just didn't care for...or at the very least thought was 'over-rated' or on the flip-side that you hadn't heard or read great things about that really surprised you?

The wine buyer at the Coop where I buy a fair amount of wine was speaking highly of some 8-10 dollar Spanish Tempranillo's earlier this summer, and I found them to be on the thin side (maybe I've been drinking too much shiraz).

After reading much about the 'value' that is currently taking place in Spanish reds I'd just about given up, thinking I just didn't care for the Spanish Reds...

Then quite by chance this weekend, I got a last minute bottle from my small-town grocer, of 1997 Bodegas Montecillo Reserva Rioja ($18.00 bottle), simple because I didn't care for a mass marketed variety for my Saturday grill. This was simply as delicious of a red I've had in quite sometime. Very refined and mellow, not overly oaked, plum and berry with a hint of chocolate...wonderful...(91-92 pts)...

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