Llenca Plana 2019

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 How much of our wine shopping is based on the visual aspects of a certain bottle?

This is a question that often comes up to my mind when I get confronted with the fact that I have just acquired another bottle for its looks. 

In this case, I was having a look at the offer a certain retailer had on wines from Montsant, Catalunya, and, out of a sudden, this bottle was inside my basket.

Only later have I realized that this is the same producer from Anima Negra which is a winery from Mallorca that down and out ends up on my table. Not that this fact would have conditioned at all my choice, but I find it rather interesting to only late realise that my wine buying decisions can still be  rather emotional. And this besides my constant efforts of making it a more rational one. 

I also have to take in account that I am working at a wine shop and that I am constantly confronted with emotional choices like the one I have done, even though I try to convince clients that a good wine can be hidden behind a dull label.

Anyway, this project from Monsant has brought me exactly what I was expecting: a deep red wine with an amazing balance between acidity and fruity flavour full of red berries due to the use of Carinena (Carignan) with Garnacha (Grenache). In the mouth  it also had some subtle mineralty which made it an incredibly gastronomic, ideal for a rich tomato sauce based dish and grilled vegetables in a soul search of reliving a more mediterranean experience. 

It is a very good wine and like some of the other projects by Terra de Falanis, it will come back to my table soon or later. 

I know Spring is slowly showing up around here and that definitely conditions my wine choices. And also visually. >Even though I am very aware of it, somehow I can not help it. And I do not want to in order to keep on being positively surprised as I was now.



17,5/20
Country: Spain
Region: Monsant
Grapes: Carinena, Garnacha
14%
Winemaker: n/a

Website: https://www.terradefalanis.com/en/our-wines

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