A Nice Evening with Nolia Catalunya

Saturday I was running around getting everything I needed to cook dinner yesterday and today.  While out I went by Feldman's Market Center to take advantage of a nice little steak lunch special they had going on.  While there I picked up a couple bottles of wine for cooking, and one for Pris and I to work on over the weekend.  It'd been a while since we had a nice Spanish red, and they had a bottle of Nolia 2009 Catalunya Granacha on sale for about $10.

The Nolia had a soft fruit nose with nice notes of ripe red berries.  One of the selling points of this wine is that its from old vine grapes, and it shows on the palate.  This wine was soft and supple with loads of raspberry and cherry.  Undercurrents of spice and leather added  balance to the otherwise fruitful wine.  The minimal tannins allow for a light and fruitful finish to this good Spanish red.

I had a little of the wine with a steak from Feldman's, and it went well.  But it didn't really have time to breathe and it was slightly sweet.  This evening we drank some with our dinner of red wine and apricot braised short ribs with mushroom and cream mashed potatoes.  Tonight the wine opened up nicely and went great with the tender braised beef.