Vintage Cellar Tasting - Monte Aman

• Name: Monte Aman
• Variety: Tempranillo
• Region: Arlanza
• Country: Spain
• Year: 2009
• Price: $5.95
• Shop Review: 100% Tempranillo.  Fermentation of selected grapes in stainless steel tanks at controlled temperature.  Aging in American oak casks for five months followed by three months in the bottle before being released in the market.  Inky ruby.  Ripe cherry and plum on the nose.  Smooth and fleshy, with dep dark fruit flavors complicated by bitter chocolate and anise.  A spicy quality adds lift and focus to the weighty fruit.  Offers an appealing mix of power and energy and drinks very well right now.
• My review: This was a very strange wine to me, not sure I really liked it very much.  It had a very pungent smell, almost like vomit and cherries.  Yeah, that's right, I brought back the vomit again, what was up with today?  Vomit wine tasting day?  Hmm...anyways, the flavor was nice and spicey with high tannins.  The flavor had a nice hint of raspberries and strangely, a flavor deep in the back of my mouth that tasted like tuna, very strange.  It finished hot.  Overall I didn't dislike this wine, actually it was pretty good, but it had too many subtle, strange tastes that I found to be a little off.
• No food.