Las Rocas de San Alejandro Garnacha - 2005

IN VINO VERITAS
Today's wine review, my first attempt at a "published" critique, focuses on a really great and easy-to-find wine at a price under $10! Las Rocas Garnacha 2005 is a dry, medium-bodied wine that had plenty of delicious fruit, yet left the slightest acidic linger to the finish. When paired with any sort of red meat, as I did, it is a very food friendly wine. I'd feel as comfortable drinking this Spanish red wine in a high-end restaurant as I would at home on a Tuesday night.

In the spirit of wine ratings, made popular for the general consumer by Robert Parker and The Wine Advocate, I am going to use a five (5) point FISH (<><) rating scale rather than one hundred (100) points. In all honesty, I cannot differentiate a 89 point wine with a 92 point wine and there's no benefit in clustering most of the scores in the high eighties/low nineties anyway. Therefore, my scale and associated rating notes:
Five (<><<><<><<><<><) - Perfect!
Four (<><<><<><<><) - Great
Three (<><<><<><) - Good
Two (<><<><) - Not Bad / Not Good
One (<><) - Undrinkable

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