Spanish wine tonight: Juan Gil Petit Verdot

Posted by Andrew Chapman in Wine Tasting Notes, 10:51pm 22/04/2008. Leave a comment

... well, I decided what to drink tonight in the end: Juan Gil Petit Verdot 2006.

I had to fill up a supplier order last week with a few cases of something and I've always wanted to try this wine since we started stocking its stable-mate Juan Gil Monastrell Monastrell over the last couple of vintages. So I took a gamble...

I had snatched a bottle out of the first crate in the consignment earlier today when I was in the warehouse, ostensibly to bring home to photograph (trying to get to grips with my new camera: Canon EOS 400D Digital SLR).

Alison made a great fish pie ( even topped the one I made for her family when they came for Easter. Damn, I have a kitchen battle on my hands as well as trying to sell wine now!), so we finished off a bottle of the new 2007 vintage of Malvasia 'Marques de la Villa'. Lovely and fresh, with plenty of zesty, modern fruit. Perfect Monday to Thursday wine.

Actually, I hadn't really intended to go past finishing the white off. But got all excited by the new podcast system coming online, nice chat online with a friend or two... what the heck. It looked so good in the photo, I wanted to try a glass!

Juan Gil Petit Verdot 2006: Intense cherry red colour. Looks deep and brooding. Ripe, juicy berry fruits on nose. Touch of spice (cinnamon?). Some licorice even. Ripe, full-bodied palate. Nicely balanced fruit and tannins - ripe tannins, but a fair squish of acidity too. Plummy, deep, rich. All in all, a big wine in every sense of the word, but not over-done and even worked with cheese.... and I'm not a big red wine and cheese fan. But that's another blog post!

OK, enough blogging for today... time to find that bottle again before Alison gets to it....

NB
I'll be updating Juan Gil's Producer Profile in next few days. Find out more about this producer there soon.

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