Vintage Cellar Tasting - Tres Ojos

• Name: Tres Ojos
• Variety: Garnacha
• Region: Calatayud
• Country: Spain
• Year: 2011
• Price: $6.95
• Shop Review: This wine has a brick red color with a bouquet of red raspberries, spice, and white pepper.  The palate is incredibly concentrated and rich.  The modern styles of  Garnacha in Spain are continuously being perceived worldwide as wines of extradordinaryly good quality.  This wine is fruity, juicy, and shows a great deapth, ripe tannins, length but yet with wonderful elegance and lightness.  Enjoy with sausages, roasted meats, aged cheeses, etc.
• My Review:  Now, for the record, I usually try to make my reviews as long or longer than the shop's reviews, but this was one hefty review!  It's gonna be hard to top that, so I will ramble on to take up some space before I start my actual review.  Did you know that this wine is apparently the #1 selling wine at the vintage cellar?  Makes sense now why the review is so massive.  Let's get going with our review, shall we?  The nose was extremely powerful in this wine, definitely strong on the cherry, and I could literally smell the tannins and the full-bodiedness of this wine just in the smell.  The flavor of this was very fruity, with strong tannins and extreme spices as well.  A terrific wine.  If I could buy two wines this would be the second wine I'd buy, but I can't, sadly.
• Food:  nope