May 7

On a previous day I blogged about a yummy Spanish Rose, Vina Rufina Rosada. My Mom took a bottle home and reports that as tasty as it was the first night, the rest of the bottle tasted better the next night. She stored the unused wine in the fridge too.

Here's another new grape for me, Airen.

I just bought an Airen from Spain. It is a light dry white wine that retails for $9.99. The rep tasted me on the wine twice before I bought it. The first time I was so unprepared for its flavor, it shocked me, and frightened me a little, yes wine tasting can be scarey, so I asked for a retry. The second time, a few weeks later, it was exactly the same. This is a good thing because the bottle variance with a wine that I have no track record scares me. I have to get over this phobia.

The wine is light and dry, and Pinot Grigioish, but it has the amazing flavor of pear and banana. Think about that combo pears and bananas. Weird, yet delicious. Not sweet at all. Its all about the perfume of the wine. Waiting for the next hot day to give it a go at home, while watching the boys do the lawn.

May 2

Now that we have had our Euro holiday, let's go back to the states and have another barbque. So slam a pork chop on the grill with only a bit of salt and pepper, a rub of garlic and serve a Spanish red.

Peanut butter goes with jelly, bacon with eggs, and grilled pork with Spanish red. No barbque sauce! Can't explain why, but this is truly one of those 1 + 1 = 3 moments. (There is a wine from Spain labelled 1 + 1 = 3, don't use it for pork.) The pork makes the wine tastes better and the wine makes the pork taste better. This is the cop-out blog. Any Northern Spanish red works, the regions of Rioja, Ribera del Duero, Costieres de Segre and more all taste great with the pork chop. Spend a little, spend a lot, it won't matter, it will be yummy. So find one on your own, I got plenty at the store from $6.99 and up. This is a no-brainer.

April 30

See that comment on the side of the blog, I taste all the bad wines so you don't have to.? Today was a bad day. I tasted more cruddy wines today, really bad stuff, that my tongue wanted to slap me silly. But I perservered.

Mozafresca, sounds like a soda pop, is a tasty inexpensive dry white blend from Spain. The 2008 at $9.99 a bottle is a blend of two local varieties of grapes, Dona Blanca and Godello. I don't know much about the Dona Blanca yet, but the Godello is an up and coming grape. The wine is dry light and crisp in the Pinot Grigio style, but it has more flavor that is kind of hard to put your tongue on, so let's just say a hint of earth, spice and fruit. Just a hint though. I could see this wine served with assorted tapas, apps or grilled seafood. Even a tuna sandwich would work. Nice wine to have in the fridge for impromptu anything this summer.