Happy Monday! I hope you had a great weekend and are ready for the week. I was excited to try a new wine. Let’s face it, I’m excited to try any wine, but let’s focus on the “new”. I receive emails from a local wine distributor…and I’m a sucker…henceforth, I buy new and exciting wines based on an email. I bought two bottles of the 2017 Planeta Red Wine. This is a Sicilian wine made of both Nero d’Avola and Frappato grapes that are grown in Sicily. The Nero d’Avola grapes can be compared to Cabernet Sauvignon grapes, but the Frappato are more fruity by nature. Per Wine Folly, the Frappato grapes are paired with the Nero d’Avola grapes to give them more complexity. In this case, I didn’t get the complexity. It tasted dark cherry and some paper believe it or not. It was juicy (yeah I know I sound ridiculous saying it), but it was a juicy wine. It was a relative light wine overall. I let it breathe and then tried it again. I think I drink too many bolder wines as this just didn’t stand up even as a drinking wine. This wine is $20 to $25 per bottle but it is more difficult to find unless you end up on the email distribution list of a local wine distributor…like me. Have a great week.
