Wine reviews.
I spotted this wine in COSTCO and it had a score of at least 90 by Robert Parker. The price was well under ten dollars so we purchased it. I would score this wine above 50, probably close to a 60. It simply was not that impressive.
Winery: Panarro
Vintage: 2006
Varietal: Blend
Country: Spain
Region: Almansa
Vendor: COSTCO
Price: Under $10
Our rating: 60
Good flavor. Excellent price. Enjoyable in all respects.
I am the canary in the coal mine. If there is any chemical additive in meat, I will get a headache. This is also some times true with wine. I can not figure out why I get headaches with wine. I do not think additives are the cause, but I am not sure of that. This wine created no headache the next morning.
My doctor told me to drink wine as it might help my symptoms from my blood thickening. In order to get the same benefits from drinking wine, I try to take Longevinex but the cost is close to $1 a pill. I love to sip wine and write this blog. I do not get headaches from Longevinex but some times it is just more fun to sip the wine instead of popping a pill.
Simply awful tasting wine. It tasted like it was altered. I picked up the taste of clove. We threw the contents of the bottle out. This is most surprising as Yellow Tail has been an ok wine for us in the past. Yellow Tail is made in Australia.
My wife and I took a honeymoon cruse on a cruise line that offered French wine with just about every dinner. Before, during and after that cruise just about every French wine we had was disappointing due to the impression that the wines were watered down. That cruise really created the impression we now have about European wines. At other times drinking Italian wines, for me, have had the same impression, anemic flavor. I have suspected that some French vintners, have allegedly stretched their purse strings by being allowed to bottle more through the addition of water to their wine vats. It seems inconceivable to me that in one continent the wines could be so lacking in flavor. Could it be that the more expensive wines are just not watered down? In my opinion, it seems that just about every other continent can offer robust flavors except Europe. We think South Africa, South America, Australia, and New Zeland can pretty much stand up, and even surpass, California wines. We use California wines as a bench mark to judge any other wines because we live in California.
I do hope that no United States winery would modify their wines with any watering down process, chemicals or additives. My wife thinks that air might have reached the wine leading to the altered taste. I am not so sure.