Amigo de la Tierra Garnacha Tempranillo 2022
- 91
- $20
- Drink by: 2025-2031
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Organic Garnacha (Grenache) and Tempranillo here and they combine beautifully to make a wine that is sensationally priced. A case of this (yes, a case, no need to be stingy at this price) at your next barbecue and you’ll make friends for life. Spain continues to nail the combo of delicious drinking and cracking value. Red/ garnet in colour, the nose is full of raspberries and cherries, hints of tomato bush, roast meats and handfuls of warm earth. Even a gentle touch of chocolate. The wine is well structured with bright energy, fine tannins and good persistence. Enjoy over the next four to six years.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
