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We purchased this Godello on the recommendation of a staff member at Harvest Wines' new store here in Dartmouth.  Yay, our very own private wine shop!  We are HUGE Mencia fans from the Bierzo region of Spain.  Mencia is the red grape of Bierzo and Godello (say it with us Go-Day-Yo) is a main white grape.  Produced by Alvarez De Toledo  at $15 who could say no. The best description of the colour of this wine is straw.  It is light with a touch of gold and it is a super thin almost watery wine on the swirl.  Little blobs of wine stick to the sides of the glass almost like you would see if you had club soda in a glass.  It's not bubbly just really watery. The bouquet (note we have recently come back to using this term) is very light.  A hint of a aromatically perfumed orange blossom and even more it literally smells like Springtime. Fresh and clean with maybe some sweet bee pollen. Maybe we are just tired of Winter...no, no it ...

This wine was a Christmas gift that we just got around to trying. We love Zinfandel and had not had Bonterra since we lived in the US.  We remembered it being a nice wine.  From Mendocino County, this is a popular California wine brand and this is a quality wine.  It is also made from organic grapes (according to the label). The wine is very thick when swirled in the glass.  In fact, there are the slowest legs possible on this wine. They take forever to run down the sides. It is a crimson colour that is so dark and thick you can't see through it in the slightest. A really interesting look to the wine. If you were a red wine drinker you would take notice of the way it looks. The nose is very powerful and even though we didn't decant this wine, it just has a lot of pop. It is hot and slightly sweet bouquet.  The dominant notes are black currents and vanilla and what we would consider a typical Zinfandel nose. The flavour profile is really nice...