Young Person’s Wine Night Vol 3: Iberia (and a French imposter)

[u/KennethParcellsworth]

For the third instalment of the “Young Person’s Wine Night” (see previous posts) we tried to accompany the wine with some more substantial food, as opposed to just snacks. We had just got back from a trip to Spain, Portugal, and France so we decided to go with Iberia as a (loose) theme. To round out the lineup, we did break the theme a little to include a white burgundy.

Wine list: 1. 2016 K5 Getariako Txakolina Kaiaren 2. 2018 Sylvain Langoureau Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru la Garenne 3. 2000 Urbina Rioja Selección
4. 2014 La Rioja Alta Rioja Gran Reserva Viña Arana 5. Fonseca Porto 20 Year Old Tawny Port

Accompanying menu was:

• Lemon Stuffed Olives
• Patatas Bravas
• Espinacas con Garbanzos
• Pintxos/Montaditos (Manchego and tomato or chèvre and caramelised onions, on baguette)
• Veggie Paella
• Basque Cheesecake

There was supposed to be Pastel de Nata as well but I forgot to get them.

Tasting notes in comments.

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[u/Montauket]

Bravo!!!

I feel like the puliny might be a little lost in there, but everything looks delicious.

[u/KennethParcellsworth → u/Montauket]

Yeah it was a bit of the odd-man-out in some ways but it was delicious and a great bridge from the starters to the “main”!

[u/KennethParcellsworth]

Notes on the wines:

2016 K5 Getariako Txakolina Kaiaren

Nose: white flowers (jasmine, citrus blossom), wet stone, orchard fruits (apple, pear), touch of pastry and wax

Palate: lime, lemon, grapefruit, green and red apple, pear, dry honey, floral, slate, river stone, flint, sea spray, iodine, touch of brioche

great balance and racing acidity, fresh, linear (with a few interesting detours), slight emerging secondary flavours

Finsh: long, minerality, sea spray, citrus, florals, astringent

Rating: 92

2018 Sylvain Langoureau Puligny-Montrachet 1er cru la Garenne

Nose: sweet white flowers, Fuji apple, pear, Greek yogurt, macadamias, vanilla, nutmeg, oak

Palate: ripe green apple and pear, candied grapefruit, lemon meringue, almond, macadamia, yogurt, cream, smoked Gouda, vanilla, baking spices, gentle oak, great complexity and intensity.

The primary fruit and secondary notes are well balanced alongside great acidity and some lovely reductive flintiness. Like many Sylvain Langoureau wines I have tried, the secondary notes are very prominent (in a good way).

Finish: long, minerality, citrus rind, baking spices, nuts

Rating: 92

2000 Urbina Rioja Selección

Nose: Tobacco leaf, green herbs, sweet black cherry, blackberry, baking spices, clay dirt

Palate: dried red cherry and black cherry, sour strawberry, touch of oak, rosemary, thyme, marinating spices, supple worn leather, savoury, drying gentle tannins, balanced, elegant

Finish; long, astringent, spicy, clay like, stone fruit pit

Not quite as intense or expressive as the same bottle I had a bit over a year ago, but still drinking well and quite tasty, could be bottle variation, drink soon.

Rating: 90

2014 La Rioja Alta Rioja Gran Reserva Viña Arana

Nose: oak, sandalwood, desiccated coconut, dense black cherry, blackberry jam, vanilla, cinnamon, cardamom

Palate: black cherry compote, ripe blackberries, plum, coconut, vanilla, oak, white chocolate, cardamom, nutmeg, clove, clay, stone fruit pit, paprika, oregano, leather, tobacco leaf, incredible intensity, balance, and complexity, like drinking sweet and savoury pastries

Finish: sweet black fruit jam, oak, red clay, salt brush, long and delicious

This won wine of the night for most people.

Rating: 94

Fonseca 20 Year Old Tawny

Nose: roasted stone fruits, roast nuts, Christmas pudding, treacle, baking spices (cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom, allspice, clove), milk chocolate, burnt caramel

Palate: caramel, chai, cinnamon bun, roast peaches, baked plum and pluot, creme brûlée, maraschino cherry, nuts, toffee

Finsh: sweet, complex, dense, stone fruit pit, maraschino cherry, caramel, toffee

Rating: 93