With great pride, I fully admit to buying wines from Lidl, the once very trashy supermarket chain. They often have wines that pique my curiosity and the prices are such that they’re impossible to beat. This has netted some winners in the past and is interesting enough to keep me going. This particular wine is from DO Cariñena which, despite having the same name as the grape, Cariñena (or the French “Carignan” we use in English) produces mostly Grenache which is what you see here. Of course it just barely […]

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