Valkyrie Tasting

There was Valkyrie Tasting this week.
Valkyrie makes wine as well as importing wines.
Majority of the wines were Spanish, including Sherry, but there were other interesting wines too.

Hattingley Valley. Sparkling wine from England.
Although the vineyard is facing the southern coast of England, each vine has to have enough space between to get full sun exposure for fruit ripening.
The wine was fresh, fruity and had good after taste.
It was my first time to try wine from England. Much better than I expected.

Maison Pascal Clement
A Burgundy producer with small production.
Their wine was soft, clean and decent. Some were fruity, others were minerally.
Approachable and I liked them a lot.

Botijo Rojo is from Valdejalon (North East Spain).
Garnacha 2014 had cherry and mineral.
Garnacha Vinas Viejas 2013 was old vines. It had fruit, coffee, caramel.
Very good Garnacha!

Bodegas Roda from Rioja.
Tempranillo base red blends.
Red fruit, herb, leather. Soft tannin.
They were good now, but had great potential for ageing.

Bodegas Tradicion
NV Cream VOS 20 years was a blend of youthful PX and ancient Oloroso. Dark coffee.
NV Pedro Ximenez VOS 20 years was 100% PX, average 22 years ageing. This had ripe dark fruit and herb.
I'm not a big fan of oxidative quality of Sherry, but they were interesting drink.

Banshee wine's single vineyard Chardonnay was good, too.

Overall, wines were refined than powerful.