Country of origin: Spain
Wine appellation: Tacoronte Acentejo (Tenerife)
Vintage: 2008
Alcohol content: 13.0%
Residual sugar: n/a
Acidity: n/a
Color: medium ruby red
Bouquet: black currant, green belly pepper, hint of blackberries
Taste: medium body, sour cherries, black currant, higher acidity, young tannins, at the end hint of bitterness, short to medium finish
Recommended food pairing: BBQ
Overall score: 78
Price: EUR 5.50
Stopper: plastic cork
This was a must buy as one cannot taste local wine when on holiday in Tenerife - Canary Islands. Did I expect more? To be honest not, but I was eager to check it out how volcanic soil and hot climate wine tastes. The wines from Canary Islands are generally more expensive than from European part of Spain and do not offer that excellent value/price ratio. To be fair I may be mistaken, but I do not want to experiment further as for the same price (from EUR 5 to 10) one can get much better wines from Rioja, Ribera del Duero, Toro, Navarra, etc. But you must taste local wine when on holiday. Just for info on the local market one lady was selling clearly heavily oxidated rose or something like this (it actually looked more like vinegar with lots of particles in it) claiming this wine to be very good, at least we did not buy that, but the one just tasted here :).
Of course you had to try the local stuff. It must be hard for them to compete against the good quality/price stuff which comes from the Spanish mainland. At least the label looks nice :-)
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