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Pago Casa del Blanco

Year

2006
Varietal

Merlot
Style

Bold
Origin

Spain
Pairing

Poultry
$33.00 per bottle
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Origin
The interior region of Castille-La Mancha, Spain’s largest winegrowing area, is located primarily on a vast plain that sits at a high altitude above sea level. While its climate is typical of central Spain—hot, dry summers and cold winters—this region’s altitude gives it classically warm days and cool nights, allowing grapes a consistent, slow march toward ripeness while maintaining good structure and acidity. Soils can vary from sandy to chalky to alluvial, giving a range of textures to the resulting wines.
Pairings
Given its depth and concentration, this wine is, not surprisingly, a great match for meat, be it lamb, beef, pork or game birds. Spanish accents will also work well, since dishes from pork and peppers to grilled chops to paella all tend to merge deeply meaty, savory flavors with mouthwateringly spicy, earthy notes. Fresh green herbs like tarragon, rosemary and thyme are excellent with big, young red wines, as are the earthy flavors of mushrooms, peppers and beans.

Serve at cool room temperature (64°F).
Winemaker
While the Casa del Blanco estate has been around for centuries and has a winemaking history dating back to at least 1854, it’s really the last 10 years that have been most significant. Thanks to the efforts of the Sánchez-Contreras family, which owns the estate, in 2010 Casa del Blanco received its own protected designation of origin—the right to call itself a “Vino de Pago”—an honor only 10 other properties in Spain can boast. To earn it, the winery must show a long history of quality, use its own vineyards exclusively, vinify on site, and be able to show that its wines are unique and sustainable.
The Wine
The unusual nature of this blend shows the forward-thinking qualities of the Pago Casa del Blanco wines. Blending Spain’s great red grape, Tempranillo, which is known for its earthiness and sometimes rough-hewn qualities, with the roundness and depth of Merlot and Petit Verdot grapes, this wine is an exciting combination of Old- and New-World styles. Dark and extracted, the wine shows gorgeous depths of blackberry and red currant with plum, mocha, spice and vanilla. It’s dry, but with great fruit and a long, juicy finish.

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