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Showing posts with label bonarda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bonarda. Show all posts

18.11.09

Dante Robino Bonarda, 2008

This bottle was our second choice at "Bo Bo" in Soho Palermo: we needed a lighter body red and I wanted to try an decent Argentine Bonarda for a while (it is actually charbono grape, called bonarda in Argentina).
Both restaurant and the wine were kind of disappointing... Our food was good but nothing to brag about, and the bottle .... well it's all subjective... but for me the combination of sweat, barnyard and sweet, red fruit in the bouquet was not happening. Some yogurt or other lactic undertones were present. Simple cherry and oak mouth, little vanilla in the finish. I read some reviews of the same bottle from older vintages, looks like it ages well toward chocolate and raspberry. 35 AR$

21.9.09

Callia Alta- Syrah/Bonarda 2006 Valle de Tulum, San Juan, Argentina




Callia Alta - Syrah/Bonarda 2006 Valle de Tulum, San Juan, Argentina

Price U$ 8

Found this at a food fair in South America. Great wine for under 10 dollars.

San Juan has become one of the newest regions in Argentina to come out with quality wines
along with the Patagonia.

This combines the Bonarda and Syrah varieties which gives a rich ruby wine,
with sweet tanins and rich fruit aromas. Pretty smooth finish as well.

Combines well with pasta, thai and chinese food according to the maker.