After Day 2 of trying to get a Minnesota driver's license -- oh, the bureaucracy! -- I needed to treat myself, and what I selected was the 2005 Joan d'Anguera La Planella (Monsant, Spain.) It was $17 at South Lyndale Liquors. The wine is 40 percent mazuelo and 20 percent each of syrah, grenache and cabernet sauvignon.I never really pay too much attention to "official" wine ratings: to me, a good wine is any wine you like. But I was browsing around online and saw this one gets an 89 from erobertparker.com, so that's nice to know, if that's your thing.
This ruby red had aromas of cinnamon and straw, and on first taste you definitely get a big blast of the tannic/acidic mazuelo grape. It was a bit of a chameleon, though, and softened up after half an hour of airing. The Planella is full-bodied, too, at 14.5 percent alcohol. Just the thing to take the edge off after a day at the license bureau.
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