Event
Open Bottle
Thursday, June 09, 2016
Time: 04:00pm - 08:00pm
Type: Wine Tasting
Location: The Wine Cabinet
Event Free
Every Thursday from 4:00 until 8:00 pm we open a special bottle of wine and offer to you at a highly discounted price.
The wines are typically 90 points or better and are discounted 20-40%. Sometimes even more! when we can get special pricing from our vendors , we pass the savings along to you!!
Come in on Thursday and sample. If you can't make it, call us and we can put some aside for you!!
(All purchases must be accompanied by a credit card.)
ENCANTO
Roble Mencía
2011
Bierzo, Spain
You might remember last May we did the Bodegas Avanthia Cuvee Mosteiro Mencia 2010 and what a steal that wine was, the Encanto drinks right with the Avanthia at 2/3 the price!
90 Points!
# 36 Top 100 Best Buys 2015! The Wine Enthusiast
This fresh, pure value red cranks out raspberry and boysenberry aromas in front of a crisp, tight palate. Ripe, quick-hitting flavors of red-berry fruits and a toasty, smoky finish that is zesty, with a lasting note of ripe pie cherries.
Our Thoughts on this wine.....
The 2011 Encanto Mencia Roble has the perfect blend of that smoke and big red-berry fruit. We're talking a mouthful of flavor and texture, plus a near-endless zingy, toasty, fruity finish. I can't think of a better example of the Mencia grape than this robust Spanish red. Grilled or roasted meats are an obvious pairing choice, but hard cheeses, spicy Tex-Mex, burgers, pasta or chicken dishes belong on the list as well and, believe it or not, Mencia goes well with fried seafoods!!
Our Regular Price $14.99
Special Sale Price $11.00
a bottle
$54.00! for six!!
Don’t want to miss the sale? Can’t make it Thursday?
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A bit about Bierzo……Courtesy of The Wine Enthusiast
All About on Mencía
A pilgrimage aimed at finding Spain’s most elegant red wines is rewarded in Bierzo.
BY MICHAEL SCHACHNER
Subtract traditional Rioja from the equation, and Spain isn’t exactly the land of elegant red wines. Spain’s tintos are usually concentrated and bullish, with size and power outmuscling finesse.
That’s not so in Bierzo, a small, historic wine region in northwest Spain that sits smack on the path of El Camino de Santiago (St. James’s Way), the most famous of Christian pilgrimages.
For more than a decade, Bierzo has been on a hot streak. The fuel for this fire has been Mencía, a grape once believed to be related to Cabernet Franc. When vinified properly, it delivers wines with purity of fruit, fine structure, balance and good-to-great value. Paired with robust foods like spicy stews or grilled meats, Mencía distinguishes itself as one of Spain’s top red grapes.
The Way to Bierzo
First settled by the Romans more than 2,000 years ago, and later a 
center for wine-fond Cistercian monks, Bierzo is now in the second decade of its renaissance. The region has gone from forgotten and unknown to a place that lovers of Spanish red wines should explore with ferocity.
About 75 percent of Bierzo’s winegrapes are Mencía, with the remainder being Palomino, Godello, Doña Blanca, Garnacha Tintorera and Malvasía. The region boasts more than 5,000 acres of Mencía, an estimated 80 percent of which are considered “old vines,” planted at least 50 years ago.
Bierzo is a fraction of the size of name-brand Spanish wine regions like Rioja, Ribera del Duero, La Mancha and the Penedès. But blessed with its bounty of old Mencía vines, the area has seen its fortunes change much like the Priorat in Catalonia, another former Roman stronghold that fell out of favor due to neglect and the phylloxera plague of the 19th century.
The Resurgence
In the Priorat, a band of modern-thinking winemakers and wineries that are making fine wines from old vines has led its resurgence. Much the same thing is happening in Bierzo, but on a smaller scale.
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