This time, a red wine with 24- Abrazo del Toro 2005 Tinto

Another week, another episode of 24. Friends Brett and Kory were on hand once again to enjoy TVs greatest action drama, but this time we opted to watch it at the bachelor pad (my place). Last week was a riesling with Thai food. This week, we went the red wine and pizza route. I struggled with what wine I should buy, but luckily I was mining through my blog comments, and I found a reader request to review the Abrazo Del Toro Tinto wine. I really appreciate when people suggest wines for me to try, and I was happy to have an option when I went to Trader Joe's on my way home from work.

So a little bit about this wine. As you can guess from the name, Abrazo Del Toro Tinto is not an American wine. It comes to us via Spain (vino tinto is Spanish for red wine). This wine is a mix of grenache and tempranillo.

Back to the review...

As we waited for the pizza to arrive, Brett and I decided to give this tinto a try. The wine was tangy at first, but actually mellowed out pretty quickly. The second sip was definitely better than the first, but it still wasn't great. From this limited sipping, we concluded that the Abrazo Del Toro was not a wine either of us would choose if we were just looking for something to sip on.

Now, while this was not a great sipping wine, it did go extremely well with the BBQ chicken pizza we ordered. The flavors worked really well together. The more pizza we ate, the better the wine got. When we were done eating, we revisited our previous conclusion about this wine, and modified it slightly.

Here's what we came up with-

This wine would not be on the sipping list. However, it would be a good inexpensive option (it retails for $3.99 at Trader Joe's) if you were having a bunch of people over to eat some heavier food like pizza. It would also be a good option if you were looking for a "follow-up wine." 

To find out what I mean by "follow-up wine", come back tomorrow morning. I'll have a whole post devoted to this gem of a trick.

Recommendation: Consider buying it

Comments

[Glucker]

I think that was a pretty good review of this one...

I have had about 5-6 bottles of this wine so far. For some reason (perhaps what I was dining on at the time), that first bottle was great and it has gone a little bit downhill each time.

[Joy]

Thanks for sharing!

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