La Servil 2021
As I finish a good book, I often have difficulties to get inside the next one, as if I am in some sort of literary hangover, still filled by the worlds previously given to me. That was the case as I have finished Mia Couto's O Mapeador de Ausencias and struggled to enter the genius Un amor by Sara Mesa. Even though I felt deeply identified with the narrative presented by Sara Mesa, I have experienced quite some difficulties during the first 40 pages. Moving from Mozambique to the depth of Castilla was quite a change. The same happens with wines. When I come across a tremendously good wine during a tasting I often have difficulties to objectively taste the following one as the dominant notes of the former one tend to persist. That is what happened with this La Servil from Bodegas Cerrón. A 94% Monastrell mixed with some other small authoctone grapes such as Blanquilla or Rojal this is a powerful and seductive red, showing good ripe berries flavours deliciously spiced by fine...