Composition: 50% Tannat, 20% Merlot, 30% Tempranillo. Price: 980 Uruguayan pesos, or about $50. Unavailable on Wine-searcher, though the 2006 is available for $45-$75 (2 vendors). Great, dark, rich, ruby color, with great legs. The aroma is very soft and floral. It smells a bit acidic too. The wine is actually quite pleasant. One...
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Composition: 100% Tannat Barrel tasting from a private sample drawn the day before. Since this wine had just been drawn, it had not matured in the bottle yet. A6 is the designation for one of the best tannat-producing parcels at the Bouza winery. Bouza tries to increase the quality of its tannats by utilizing grapes only from those...
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Composition: 100% Chardonnay. Price: 250 Uruguayan pesos, or about $12, in Uruguay. $17 on Wine-searcher (rip-off). A bit weak-flavored and very acidic. It’s rather rough and young. It goes down okay but with very little flavor. On the bitter side. Very little else to say about this wine—just can’t compare to most...
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Composition: 60% Tempranillo, 40% Tannat. Price: 300 Uruguayan pesos, or about $15, in Uruguay, but $27 for the 2007 on Wine-searcher (a rip-off). Dark, rich color. Not very aromatic, though there’s some good oak notes. A bit too rough for me. It goes down a bit harshly—the wine’s still young. It’s acidic and very bitter,...
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I know some of you are disappointed that I won’t go more extensively into Chilean wines, but there’s too much out there to explore and too little time. Next, I’m going to focus on somewhat of an unexpected site–the tiny wine-producing state of Uruguay, the rising challenger in South America. Specifically,...
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