Ep 067: The Grape Miniseries Tempranillo
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Facebook friends voted and the Grape Miniseries won for the topic this week! So for the first podcast of 2013 we tackle the King of the Spanish reds: Tempranillo. It has more\\u2026and less\\u2026 to it than meets the eye. After lots of wonderful thanks and fun comments, we get to this fascinating, native Spanish grape. A few notes on it\\u2026 The grape is\\xa0from northern Spanish and gets its name from \\xa0\\u201cTemprano\\u201d which means early, since it ripens 2 weeks before Rioja\\u2019s other important grape \\u2013 Garnacha The wine is deep-colored, lower in acid and alcohol, and\\xa0has amazing ageability but a lot of times it\\u2019s kind of bland on flavor. If it\\u2019s got any flavor it\\u2019s kind of like berries, plum, tobacco, vanilla, leather, and herbs. It can be a lot better in a blend, as the folks in Rioja can tell you. Climate and elevation is everything for Tempranillo \\u2014 it does best in cool climates and at elevation. \\xa0Yields HAVE to be controlled to produce a good wi [...]
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