2006 Bodegas Borsao, Borsao Crianza Selección, Campo de Borja, Spain
June 17, 2009 by Derek Swanson
This meaty red is recommended by Taylan Bozkurt, sommelier at the luxurious Stonhedge Inn & Spa in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts. Taylan regarded this wine as “another great value coming out of Spain; a wine with a long and thick mouth feel…good structure, acidity and balance.”
The wine’s principal varietal is Garnacha (Grenache), which is blended with Merlot and Tempranillo. The wine is aged in a combination of American and French oak barrels for a minimum of ten months, a process which imparts the smooth tannins.
This bottle retails between $11 and $16, a price that Taylan remarked, “shouldn’t make someone feel guilty about drinking it as their Monday-Friday house wine.” Taylan operates an impressive program at Stonehedge, maintaining New England’s largest wine collection of over 100,000 bottles and offering over 2000 selections on The Left Bank (Stonehedge’s fine dining restaurant, formerly Silks) wine list. Taylan’s father, Levant, was quoted in a 2004 Food & Wine article as wanting “to see a bottle on every table.” To that end, wine prices at Stonehedge are extraordinarily low. Guests may also notice that recent releases are hard to come by on Taylan’s wine list, as he endeavors to offer wines at their peak drinkability.
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