Las Rocas Garnacha

I got home Thursday to find Pris hard at work in the kitchen getting dinner ready.  Since we've started experimenting with more food recipes she's gotten more adventurous and wanted to try out some stuff.  I found out she was making Fettuccini Alfredo with shrimp and chorizo.  And to go with this decadently rich meal she selected a 2007 Las Rocas Garnacha.

The Las Rocas is a light red wine with a light red taste.  This Garnacha livens up the nose with berry aromas, especially raspberry.  On the palate the wine is mellow and fruity, with good acidity and a touch of oak.  It also goes ever so slightly sweet through the mid-palate.  The finish offers up a nice tart kick right in the back of the mouth that is as abrupt as it is refreshing.  But the wine does linger a bit afterwards allowing you to savor it just a little longer.

This wine is an excellent Spanish 90 point wine that seems tailor made for rich spicy and savory dishes.  To say that the meal was rich would be something of an understatement.  The spice of the chorizo was mellowed a bit by the Alfredo sauce, but was still present.  The 2007 Las Rocas Garnacha offered both a great counterpoint and compliment to the meal.  The lightness and the acidity of the Las Rocas Garnacha cut through the heaviness of the cream sauce.  At the same time the fruitiness of the wine played well with the spices imparted by the chorizo.  All in all it balanced out the meal perfectly.

While the Las Rocas will go great with spicy or heavy dishes, its a great little wine all on its own.  We picked our first bottle of this wine at HEB Central Market in San Antonio. We then found the second bottle at the HEB in McAllen. We've noticed that HEB McAllen on Trenton and 10th is now starting to carry more of the Central Market inventory of wines. At $12.99 a bottle, this wine is definitely a good everyday wine to have on hand. To find out more about Las Rocas and their wines you can visit:  http://www.lasrocaswine.com/