Bodegas Bouza Tannat 2009
Price £13.55
Stock Level: 13
| Grape: | Tannat |
| Strength: | 14% |
| Style: | Full bodied |
| Size: | 750ml |
| Appearance: | very intense red in colour |
| Aromas: | aroma brings to mind super ripe plums, blackberries and vanilla notes |
| Palate: | wow probably the meatiest and chunkiest wine I've ever had with black fruit flavours and a green pepper character. It shows great body, big tannins, and a prolonged finish. A strapping red wine! Aged for 14 months over its lees in French and American oak barrels. |
| Serving Notes: | would pair well with pasta and meat dishes or peppery foods |
Vineyard: Bodegas Bouza http://www.bodegabouza.com/index_eng.php
Bodega Bouza is a great example of modern Uruguay. Their vineyards are a mixture of 40-year-old vines in Las Violetas and some newer plantings around the renovated winery near Montevideo. Temperatures in Montevideo are around 1° or 2° lower than Las Violetas, with a sea breeze cooling the vineyard, and the soil is different from the older, harder clay of Las Violetas. To ensure emphasis on the different plots throughout the two vineyards, each half hectare is vinified separately in small vats before selection for the different cuvées.
In the winery careful handling and the best French oak are followed by ongoing analysis of wine by batch from vineyard through to selection for the various cuvées. Monitoring of these variations and management of them ensure quality, and the result is a reputation as the best of a growing number of wineries who are changing from mass production from fertile vines to low yield and high quality. This whole process is overseen by Eduardo Boido, who is Uruguay’s first doctor in Oenology, lecturer at the University and now a shareholder in Bouza.
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