In The Cellar
The basis for the powerful Pago De Los Balagueses Garnacha Tintorera from Valencia are grapes from the Garnacha grape variety. Clearly, the Pago De Los Balagueses Garnacha Tintorera is also determined by more than just the soil Utiel-Requena DO. This Spaniard can literally be described as an Old World wine that is exceptionally impressive. After the grape harvest, the grapes are immediately taken to the press house. Here they are selected and carefully broken up. Then fermentation takes place in small wood at controlled temperatures. After its end, the Pago De Los Balagueses Garnacha Tintorera is aged for another 10 months in oak barrels.
The powerful Pago De Los Balagueses Garnacha Tintorera from Bodegas Vegalfaro flows into the glass with a dense purple color. Swiveling the glass, this red wine reveals a high viscosity, which is evident in church windows at the rim of the glass. Ideally poured into a Bordeaux glass, this Old World red wine offers wonderfully expressive aromas of plum, damson, morello cherry and blueberry, rounded out by dark chocolate, black tea and gingerbread spice contributed by barrel aging This red from Bodegas Vegalfaro is the right wine for all connoisseurs who like it dry. However, it is never dry or brittle, as you would expect from a wine in this price range. On the tongue, this powerful red wine is characterized by an incredibly fleshy and dense texture. With its incisive fruit acidity, the Pago De Los Balagueses Garnacha Tintorera presents itself impressively fresh and lively on the palate. The final of this red wine with good aging potential from the wine-growing region of Valencia, more precisely from Utiel-Requena DO, finally impresses with considerable reverberation.
