{"id":1826,"date":"2009-02-09T11:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T11:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/budget-spanish-reds\/"},"modified":"2017-01-27T10:48:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T10:48:01","slug":"budget-spanish-reds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/?p=1826","title":{"rendered":"Budget Spanish reds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Let me digress from the title of this entry for a moment by dwelling on a very good sporting weekend. I follow the Spanish football team Betis and am an avid fan of Welsh rugby. On Saturday Betis beat arch-rivals Seville in the local derby played in Seville&#8217;s ground and yesterday Wales beat Scotland away in the first round of the Six Nations tournament. Could we be on the road to a second successive grand slam? Fingers crossed.<br \/>Anyway, as mentioned in an earlier entry, due to the economic downturn we are drinking a lot more wine that is in the lower price bracket  and through shops like Tierra Nuestra in Seville and Huelva are finding some excellent wines for 6 euros or less. Most of the wines are quite fruit forward and have maybe 5 or 6 months of oak ageing or none at all.I am not going to bore you with any long-winded tasting notes but just a short list of enjoyable everyday wines that will help to keep the bank manager at arm&#8217;s length:<\/div>\n<p>Laderas de El Seque 2007 (D.O. Alicante) &#8211; principally Monastrell with a dose of Cabernet Sauvignon and  Syrah<br \/>Casa Castillo 2007 (D.O. Jumilla) &#8211; Monastrell<br \/>Arrocal 2006 (D.O. Ribera del Duero) &#8211; Tempranillo<br \/>Baltasar Gracian Garnacha Vi\u00f1as Viejas 2006 (D.O. Calatayud)<br \/>Garnacha de Fuego 2007 (D.O. Calatayud)<br \/>Misterio de Fontana 2007 (D.O. Ucl\u00e9s) &#8211; Tempranillo with 10% Cabernet Sauvignon<br \/>C\u00f3dice 2006 (Castilla la Mancha but not D.O.) &#8211; Tempranillo<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/\">Wine tours in Spain<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me digress from the title of this entry for a moment by dwelling on a very good sporting weekend. I follow the Spanish football team Betis and am an avid fan of Welsh rugby. On Saturday Betis beat arch-rivals Seville in the local derby played in Seville&#8217;s ground and yesterday Wales beat Scotland away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aqot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}