WTN: Llano Estacado 2010 Tempranillo Newsom Vineyard
Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2012 11:27 am
Llano Estacado ‘Cellar Reserve’ 2010 Tempranillo Newsom Vineyard (Texas High Plains AVA)
For obvious reasons I don’t get much opportunity to drink Texan wine and even in Texas much ‘Texan’ wine is grown elsewhere.
But this one is 100% Texan, grown at altitude in the High Plains region in the west of Texas where vinifera can survive.
This was attractively silky with enough of a tannin edge to match well with roast leg of lamb. Very enjoyable.
I’d carried the bottle in my case in the boot of the car across Texas in temperatures that reached 114F / 44C but it showed no sign of damage.
Served this to friends last night and realised the last time I served them an American wine it was also Tempranillo, a beautiful wine from Moon Curser I’d brought back from Okanagen, BC.
Is Tempranillo going to be the next fashionable variety in the America’s?
For obvious reasons I don’t get much opportunity to drink Texan wine and even in Texas much ‘Texan’ wine is grown elsewhere.
But this one is 100% Texan, grown at altitude in the High Plains region in the west of Texas where vinifera can survive.
This was attractively silky with enough of a tannin edge to match well with roast leg of lamb. Very enjoyable.
I’d carried the bottle in my case in the boot of the car across Texas in temperatures that reached 114F / 44C but it showed no sign of damage.
Served this to friends last night and realised the last time I served them an American wine it was also Tempranillo, a beautiful wine from Moon Curser I’d brought back from Okanagen, BC.
Is Tempranillo going to be the next fashionable variety in the America’s?