Wine Review - 2010 Bodegas Juan Gil Petit Verdot: Big Smooth Spanish Take on a French Grape

This wine produced by Bodegas Juan Gil from the Jumilla region of Spain is a super fun wine.  Welch's grape juice is the best description for the colour.  It is very dark.  As a visual, you cannot see through it and it sticks to the glass on the swirl.  Good looking wine.

The nose is ripe fruit with a little oak but there is a spice undertone.  We can see them mentioning cinnamon which we get but it is more like an allspice scent which makes it smell a lot warmer than the flavour profile.

When you taste it you might expect a spice note on the palate but it really is a lot smoother than anything.  The acidity and tannins are in balance and it has a really nice mouthfeel.  Excellent tasting wine.  We really like it and if we could find more Petit Verdot we would certainly drink more if this wine is any indication.  Bit, if this is atypical based upon the Spanish treatment being a spin on the grape then sign us up, because it is great. Plus, at $19 it certainly tastes like a more expensive wine.

	Tasting Notes:	Score:
Sight (0-5)	Very Dark wine, almost black.	4.5
Smell (0-5)	Dark fruit, like black currents with oak and allspice notes.	4.0
Taste (0-10)	Dark fruit continues with a touch of oak but very smooth and balanced wine.	8.5
	Total:	17.0 / 20  (85.0)

Great wine under $20, bring on the Petit Verdot!

Keep on drinking!

Chris & Shannon