This winery, Finca La Estacada, has often impressed me with their extremely inexpensive, easy drinking wines. The winery is in La Mancha, but is not in the Denominacion de Origen (DO) area and therefore makes wine under Vino de La Tierra (VdT) de Castilla. The category of VdT is quite trendy at the moment and excellent wines are made under it, especially in Castilla Leon and Castilla La Mancha. Under European law, therefore Spanish law, Vdt is not considered quality wine, but rather falls under table wine. It is equivalent to Vin Pays under the French system. VdT guarantees origin but the wines are subject to much less restrictive regulations with regards to yields, aging, and grape variety etc. VdT is being used by wineries outside the officially designated DO areas, but also by winemakers who want more flexibility in making their wines.Though I have enjoyed their wines in the past, I was very disappointed in this wine…read on for a negative rating!
Wine: Finca La Estacada 6 meses en barrica 2004
Winery: Finca La Estacada
Appellation: Vino de la Tierra de Castilla
Alc: 13.5%
Grape variety: 100% Tempranillo
Oak regime: 6 months in American and French oak
Price: Around 3 euros in Spain
Tasting notes:
Visual: Medium intensity with quite a lot of brick notes at the rim
Nose: Medium intensity…first impression is green pepper…and not the nice kind! Some good, mature fruit does show through…ripe plum, as well asome black pepper. But the green pepper dominates and leads to a sharp, unpleasant nose.
Mouth: The mouth is not as bad up front…some nice fruit, but in the mid-palate, something funky and dirty kicks in. The fruit fades quickly and a metallic and tannic finish also ends quickly.
Food: No food around!
Retaste: No retaste…wasn't going to get any better!
Conclusion: Really disappointed in this 2004…this wine in 2002 and 2003 was quite nice, especially for 3 euros. I have several of these and will re-taste at a later date. It might be a bottle problem, but there was no obvious defect. It was just a sharp, thin wine. Rating: 1/10
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I think that this wine is very good, i would like to drink someday and become a professional drinker.
So high quality, this wine is so good , I went to spain last year to meeting and I was drinking a few in a dinner. It's so good.
Very good blog, wine is an art, you have to learn how to appreciate a good wine and most of the people think that is just an another thing to drink.
This brand of wines is fabulous, my parents used to drink wine at special occasions so I proved this one and it's excellent 'cause of it's price of course, which is very expensive.
As I can notice, Castilla is a very nice place to grow grapes for wine..
The problem is that category that qualifies it as poor quality!!
I don't think so anyway!! It might be because I like to cook with them!!
I don't quite understand why the European law, qualifies Vdt is not considered quality wine,Vinos de la Tierra under table wine, as if they weren't good, because they are!!
Just a wonderful chioce of wine me and my wife always enjoy one bottle of this and we absolutely enjoy this brand is just our favorite one.
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