Wonderful Juan Gil

After a Saturday of recovery from Friday's revelry (still working on that post), Pris and I were ready for a little wine Sunday night.  The question was which wine.  We'd imbibed copious amounts of six outstanding wines on Friday, and the Page Wines were going to be an incredibly tough act to follow.  So Pris selected a fine 90 point Spanish wine to ease us back into our collection. 

We opened up a bottle of Bodegas Hijos de Juan Gil 2008 Mourvedre to finish off our weekend.  This wine started out with a deep fruit nose.  At first taste the wine was lighter with a full fruit flavor on the palate.  But as the wine opened up in the glass it developed a far more full and robust flavor.  The Juan Gil closed with a full tannic finish that seemed to linger nicely.

The Mourvedre was a great accompaniment to the leftover grilled fajita and steak, and some fajitas slow cooked in red wine and spices.  It sounds like a lot of beef, but it really wasn't.  As with most Spanish reds, you can't go wrong pairing them with grilled meats.

This is a great wine that runs about $16 to $18 a bottle depending on where you pick it up.  It definitely opens up nicely, so let it breathe plenty or use a decanter. We picked up our bottle at Central Market and its widely available online, although several retailers are sold out of the 2008.