I’m thankfully no “wine influencer“, so I’m not terribly accustomed to my Instagram, “blowing up” but blow up it did when I posted this rosé from Bierzo last week. It was in a blind tasting I was conducting in the region which saw me tasting nearly 90 wines that were: reds, whites, and one rosé, this one. Initially on paper, there isn’t anything that would particularly stick out about it. It’s 100% Mencía, which is the dominant red grape in the region and it’s from one of the two cooperatives […]

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