Wine: Terra Andina (Reserva) - Cabernet Sauvignon
Price: $7
Region: Chile
Alcohol Content: 13.8%
Last night we hit up Total Wine and did our best to refill our wine rack by stocking up on 14 or 15 bottles. Sadly, they didn't have any of our usual favorite - the Terra Andina Carmenère - but they did have a Terra Andina Cab that we'd never seen before. Naturally, we grabbed a couple of bottles.
It definitely didn't disappoint. It was immensely drinkable and quite tasty. My first impression was that it had a bit of a bite to it, which JD didn't at all agree with... until about half an hour later. Hah. I noticed that it had a sweet aftertaste, and I was tasting a lot of plum and currant.
For this wine, I'll cheat and copy over what the Terra Andina site tells us:
Color: Deep ruby red
Aroma: Shows ripe red fruit mingled with a fine core of blackcurrant and blackberry, graphite, hint of eucalyptus, dry plums and black pepper.
Palate: Great balance with good structure and firm fine- grained tannins. Solid with a good depth on the finish.
Well. At least I called the plum. Also, I have no idea what "depth of finish" means - I'll have to look that one up.
Overall impressions: great price, quite delicious. Not as tasty as the Carmenere, but definitely worth buying.
2 comments:
So I don't know if it's entirely proper, but as a poor graduate student, I am curious about one thing beyond the taste: price. Could you possibly note for those of us budget-conscious individuals the price range? Or possibly just a general tag: expensive, cheap, two-buck chuck? Be inventive.
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