The wine region of Sierra Sur de Jaén is located in the region of Andalousie of Spain. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Vinos Bio Pedro Olivares or the Domaine Marcelino Serrano produce mainly wines red, white and sweet. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Sierra Sur de Jaén are Tempranillo, Cabernet-Sauvignon and Petit Verdot, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Sierra Sur de Jaén often reveals types of flavors of spices, red fruit or black fruit and sometimes also flavors of non oak, oak.
In the mouth of Sierra Sur de Jaén is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 3 estates and châteaux in the of Sierra Sur de Jaén, producing 16 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Sierra Sur de Jaén go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or veal.
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I’d like to say we took advantage of the lockdown and its related commotion to do a stock-take, explore new avenues, turn over intriguing stones, widen and deepen our drinking, taking careful notes as we went. Sadly, no. I won’t say we got stuck in a rut, but we did tend to stick with comfort wines – and “comfort”, in our case, means familiar. Regular readers of this quarterly column can probably guess the labels on the resulting empties. We have a wider range of comfort foods, I’m afraid, than ...
