Tasting: Lobetia Tempranillo-Petit Verdot Roble

Lobetia Tempranillo-Petit Verdot Roble
La Mancha, Spain
2010
$15.95
Review Provided by The Vintage Cellar: Organic and naturally grown and made, this wine allows the varietal and the terrior to stant out cleanly. It shows a nice cherry colour with a violet shade. Red berries and cherries bouquet on the nose combined with spice and coffee. On the palate there are flavors of chocolate and cherries, it is fresh, sweet tannins and harmonious with a long finish. Pair with: beef sirloin with pepper sauce.
My Review: This blended wine has spent six months in oak. Once again, I tasted the darker fruits such as cherries that I seemed to taste with this brand of wine. It was soft at first in the front of the palate, but harsher once it reached the back portion of the palate. 

Tasting: Lobetia Tempranillo

Lobetia Tempranillo
La Mancha, Spain
2012
$9.95
Review Provided by The Vintage Cellar: Shows a nice cherry colour with a violet shade because of its youth. Red berries and cherries bouquet on the nose. On the palate it is fresh, slightly astringent and harmonious with long finish. Great with meats and appetizers.
My Review: I smelled dark fruits when sniffing it: plums, cherries, the works. Between its light finish and relative ease on the palate, I can imagine this would go well with a juicy steak and red steak. 

Tasting: Lobetia Chardonnay

Lobetia Chardonnay
La Mancha, Spain
2011
$9.95
Review Provided by The Vintage Cellar: Clean bright coloured at sight, with greenish yellow tone. On the nose, exotic fruits like pineapple scents. Full flavoured, fresh, with good acidity in mouth, it recalls a tropical fruits bouquet. Great with every kind of fish.
My Review: A 100% Chardonnay wine, I learned this wine did not receive the oak treatment and instead sat in stainless steel. I have come to discover that I really like the flavors that oak brings to wine, so that always kind of disappoints me when it skips out on that treatment. It was very soft on the palate though, which is always refreshing to me. Sometimes, I don't really want that harsh bite that some wines have.

Tasting: Lobetia Viognier

Liobetia Viogner
La Mancha, Spain
2011
$12.95
Review Provided by The Vintage Cellar: Shows a bright golden colour with lime reflections. Fruity citric aromas and magnolia or Tahiti flowers-like scent. Well balanced and good acidity, in the mouth it recalls the flowers perceived on the nose. Match with: Asian dishes, ginger and marinated fish.
My Review: This particular wine may be from Spain, but Viogner is a big grape in Virginia. However, I wasn't a huge fan of this wine. This wine was particularly flowery and herbal, both on the nose and on the tongue. 

Tasting: Lobetia Bubbles

Lobetia Bubbles
La Mancha, Spain
Non-Vintage
$9.95
Review Provided by The Vintage Cellar: Organic and naturally grown and made, this wine allows the varietal and the terroir to stand out cleanly. At sight, uniform beads of tiny bubbles reach the surface of the wine in a perfect and concentric crown. Clean bright coloured, with a greenish yellow tone. On the nose, exotic fruits like pineapple scents. On the palate, creamy bubble, full flavored, fresh, with good acidity, it recalls a tropical fruits bouquet. A perfect match: All kind of fish and seafood, cheese.
My Review: When smelling it, the aromas of pineapple struck me hard and remained with me after tasting it. It tasted very tropical, very fruity. I was also struck by the obvious flavors I was able to pick out in a sparkling wine. 

Tasting: Mokoroa Txakolina

Mokoroa Txakolina
Spain
2011
$13.95
Review provided by the Vintage Cellar: Young, fruity, dry white wine with high acidity and medium alcohol content (9.5%-11.5%). As a result of the fermentation process, this wine is slightly sparkling, producing a tingle on the palate and a full range of aromas. Two grape varietals, Hondarrabi Zuri, which makes up 95% percent of the vines, and Hondarrabi Beltza, which makes up the remaining 5%. Txakoli is excellent as an aperitif and is best when drank within one year of bottling. Mokoroa's Txakoli is a tremendous value for its quality.
My Review: I didn't really think a wine could be this fruity and this dry at the same time. It was kind of weird for me. I can't really say that I was a huge fan of this wine.

Tasting: Salneval Albarino

Salneval Albarino
Spain
2011
$13.95

• Review provided by the Vintage Cellar: This smooth white offers pear, dried peach and tangerine flavors, with smoky and light earth notes. Features tart acidity
• My Review: This was perhaps my favorite of all the regular, non-dessert wines. I could really taste the pear and dried peach notes that were described in the review above. It broke my heart when I found out this wine paired really well shellfish, as I am allergic. I definitely would've have purchased this yesterday if I weren't so lazy to either ask for it or find it myself.