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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:
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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...
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 [i]chu chu ua[/i] out of my head? 3yo singing it all the time isn't helping 😕