The flavor of bramble in wine of Tarija
Discover the of Tarija wines revealing the of bramble flavor during the olphactive analysis (nose) and during the gustative analysis (mouth).
The wine region of Tarija of Bolivia. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Campos de Solana or the Domaine Aranjuez produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Tarija are Cabernet-Sauvignon, Tannat and Merlot, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Tarija often reveals types of flavors of oak, blackberry or pepper and sometimes also flavors of black fruits, cheese or cedar.
We currently count 18 estates and châteaux in the of Tarija, producing 122 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Tarija go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, mature and hard cheese or lamb.
The spirit was filled into a single ex-Sherry cask at the Speyside distillery in 1940, shortly before The Second World War forced The Macallan to close for the first time in its history. Bottled at 41.6% abv, only 288 decanters are available worldwide, featuring eye-catching packaging: a mouth-blown glass decanter sitting on a bronze sculpture of three hands, created by Scottish artist Saskia Robinson. The hands represent the distillery workers of 1940 who made the whisky; former Macallan chairm ...
An electronic dart was tossed at us recently by Decanter reader Tim Frances from Kent. It landed on the screen of our magazine editor Amy Wislocki; Amy lobbed it across the virtual room to me, suggesting a column-length reply. ‘Here’s a poser,’ Tim began. ‘How do your experts grade a wine that they find intellectually well made, but that they truly madly deeply dislike? I’ve tasted wines I can admire dispassionately, but would stab my feet with forks rather than drink them. Must be a conundrum f ...
Disconcerting: I couldn’t forget this bottle for days afterwards. Still can’t. Back in August, wine critic Lin Liu MW (together with her partner Philippe Lejeune of Château de Chambert in Cahors) came to dinner, en route to a short holiday in Provence. One of the bottles Lin brought for us to try together was the 2018 Les Rocheuses, Parcelles No 5 et 6, from Château Le Rey in Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux. It came in a slope-shouldered bottle, not a classic Bordeaux bottle. We tried it with some R ...