Wines Tasted, May 20, 2010

Pueblo del Sol - Tannat - Uruguay - 2008 - (Classic, Food Wine) - $8 - Now at this price, one expects very little, but this wine over delivers as most good quality Uruguayan Tannats tend to do.  If you haven't tried the varietal, you're missing out, and if you have, you know what I'm talking about.
Clear deep ruby with a purple tinge at the rim.  The wine offers up scents of lavender, lilacs and red bush fruits as well as an earthy component redolent of cracked limestone.  While it has seen no oak (cement tank aged), it has plenty of non fruit aromas and flavors.  Staying in the red berry camp are: red cherry, red currant and red plum and peppered apple flavors.  A great wine with food, it paired comfortably with Grilled Venison with Grilled Kale and Steamed Rice when most other wines on the table (New and Old World) floundered!