WineSmith Grenache

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Wikipedia says “[d]espite being one of the world’s most widely planted red grape varieties, Grenache’s colonization of the New World has been limited apart from strongholds in Australia and California. The rising popularity and success of the ‘Rhone Rangers’’ movement has brought greater attention to the variety and more plantings of Grenache are popping up every year in places like Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and South Africa.”
But we want to see it grown in Wisconsin, just because we love the idea of an Oshkosh Grenache
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A word from Clark Smith of WineSmith:

Wash a Nosh Down With Grenache

TASTING NOTES:
“The nose is instantly alluring. One expects from your basic Grenache a simple strawberry aroma, but here we have in support of its bright fruitiness an intriguing collection of melon, droughty ‘garrigue’ herbs, saddle leather and Asian spice. The mouth is medium-bodied with fine tannins and energetic minerality.

“As a result, the wine is more complex and intriguing than a simple picnic wine, but is certainly suitable for an outing in some summer meadow with a basket full of chicken and three-bean salad with sun-dried tomatoes. Its tannins have no edge at all, so I wouldn’t serve it with a steak, but it loves game, from venison to quail and is magic with my Swedish meatballs, doused in a morel / porcini cream sauce with a dash of Marsala.”

TANGENTIALLY RELATED FACT to help you make conversation over this wine:
“In Spain, they say ’Garnacha,’ whereas at our house we say ‘ANOTHER GLASS PLEASE’

DRINK IT FROM:
Your Burgundy stems, probably.

OR (really-going-with-the-theme option):
Something that honors the Crown of Aragon, under which the Grenache grape seems to have done its early proliferation. Try a jewel-encrusted chalice from the reign of Ferdinand II if you have one. Or an FC Barcelona tumbler if you don’t.

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