Llenca Plana 2019
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 w...