Enye Tasting

Gretchen Neuman
VinoVerve Editor

A couple of weeks ago, I attended the Enye Distribution Group’s Grand Tasting.

This was exciting because unlike most people who have come to enjoy Spanish wines over the last fews years, I have been drinking them for nearly a decade. I have always found them very quaffable as well as affordable.

Imagine my delight at encountering an entire room of them!

The first wine that I am going to talk about were from Bodegas Eguren. Actually, in all fairness these wines are really from Bodegas Heredad Ugarte which is located in Rioja Alavesa which means that these wines were produced in the Rioja DOC but in land north of the Ebro River in the autonomous Basque regions of Avela.

The wine, like the País Vasco is independent minded. Shiraz is not a grape that one would normally associate with Spain. Yet, here it is blended with the more typical Tempranillo. It tasted of cherries and plums with a nice minerality. It finished fruity with a touch of leather. Not that I actually eat leather… you know…

Anyway, I can’t wait to tell you about the rest of them.

Tags: Basque, Enye Tasting, Mercedes Eguren, Shiraz / Syrah, spain, tempranillo

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