Tonight, we return to what seems to be our favorite place, Spain. The wine is a 2007 Vinos Sin Ley G5 from Madrid ($12 from LA Wine Co.) Poking around online, I found this on the website for the wines importer (oleimports.com)...
"Vinos Sin-Ley “Wines Without Law”in translation. The twofold objective of Vinos Sin-Ley is to create “new wines” that are value oriented. The concept, driven by creative innovation using non-conventional methods of harvesting, fermenting, blending, ageing and labeling, results with wines processing new
fresh fruit driven flavors that are different from those achieved in the past. Composed of a group of young winemakers from different regions in Spain, the wines crafted at Vinos Sin-Ley are value oriented, driven by experimentation and innovative insight shared by their philosophy. They meet twice ayear to set in place new
projects of mutual interest and shared knowledge of the winemaking techniques implemented."
This bottle is kind of cool - it has a bunch of info on the back of the label about the grape (100% grenache), the soil, the climate, the vine... all kinds of good stuff - I wish all bottles were like this. Hopefully you can check out the posted photo.
Most importantly, this is a tasty wine. A nice bright fruit component (cherry, raspberry) but none of the sugary fruit you get with some of the Aussie wines. Nice length. The word savory seems to apply here. Not over oaked. Big alcohol (14.5%), but it didn't taste like it. For some reason, it reminded me of a beaujolais - lots of fruit and almost no oak.
Definitely try this if you get a chance.
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