The final wine that accompanied our family-style farmhouse dinner in Yecla, Spain was Bodegas Castaño‘s Casa de Cera 2011. The intense fruit flavor of the family’s crown jewel was enough to win us over to a new grape varietal, monastrell. Wine aficionados might know it by its French or California moniker, Mourvedre, but it’s Spanish through and through.
And we intend to prove it by continuing to sample other monastrell wines in the years ahead.
