#Paso Port Company

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The Girl From Iberia

At the expense of going all Cinderella story on you, I have to admit I was a bit skeptical of this orphan. I hate to say “I wasn’t expecting much” but I had deep reservations for where it might be. Just stunning wine from the first sniff. Rich and leathery, deep polished fruit balled up and exploding with spice and caramel. Dark, dense spice: candied cinnamon and nutmeg and cardamom wrapped…

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Adelaida Peninsula

Black burgundy and glass-staining with thin bright-pink edges. Big rosy burnt-blood nose ridiculously concentrated, dense and caking with all the visions of black cherry, cola, cassis and blackberry imaginable, all wrapped around conflicting images of sharp brittle mineral and dull curvy cellar.

If this is Tempranillo- or Garnacha-based, it is the most lavish, decadent, other-worldly version of…