Just come back from a week in Menorca and my principal observation is :Spanish wine is bloody rubbish.

Discuss.

it is, but like greek wine, you just have to drink through the pain and face the new dawn with a bottle of something red, in a bottle with some raffia wrapped round it!

my observation from 2 weeks in Menorca is that it’s about 6 days too long.

where were you staying?

Hmmm, partial to a good Rioja though.

Rioja is nice.

Sunday night generalisation….
Spanish wine is bloody rubbish.
Discuss

People who don’t know what they’re doing shouldn’t be put in charge of ordering wine? 😉

John_drummer – we were in Punta Prima, SE tip of the island.

Tried rosado and tinto. Awful. The resort supermarket very quickly ran out of ozzy Shiraz!

I think the problem is the tempranillo grape. It is musty and lacks balls. Like a dead eunuch.

i drank a few glasses of a nice malbec last night at a argentinian steak place in leeds.
it was ace……………..and nearly spanish i suppose.. 😀

People who don’t know what they’re doing shouldn’t be put in charge of ordering wine?

You need to know what to go for:

we were in Cala’n Forcat, opposite end of the island. Blackpool with sun. That’s what you get for booking last minute I suppose.

Ciutadella was nice though. Reckon if I could’ve found an apartment in the old town it would have been ace.

a good tempranillo should be smooth & velvety. sounds like you bought the bad tempranillo 😉
and isn’t “tinto” portuguese for “red wine” ? IIIRC Catalan is more like Portuguese than Castillian Spanish, so I guess that would make it a local or maybe mainland Catalan wine?

you don’t have to go to Spain…

http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/fmcg/drinks/beer-wine-and-spirits/aldis-toro-loco-wine-back-on-shelves-after-selling-out/230829.article

hmm, toro loco. that’s very nice, and a silly price too

Rioja. Alborino is one of my favourite whites, outstanding with seafood.

Nooooooo. Rioja, Tempranillo – both nice, and I had a lovely glass of Garnacha after my Sunday lunch today.

People who don’t know what they’re doing shouldn’t be put in charge of ordering wine?

+1

Had a great Menica recently.

I was in Cala’n Bosc the other week. Anyone know how to get chu chu ua out of my head? 3yo singing it all the time isn’t helping 😕