Marques de Caceres 2009 Crianza

Marques de Caceres 2009 Crianza bought this wine for father, well you now what...? When ever we go to my father&mother for dinner there is always good food so their home is a really good place to bring the wines. We reunite all/partially the family like twice a month. So there is no other better place to keep those wines than their home.

So my adventure for tasting wine with good food restarted that night. I dive into the kitchen to see what was on the menu . Aysel (my mother) is a very special woman, she gives so much love to her grandchildren including our naughty boy Poyraz. According to her cooking is like an art which she really pays a lot of attention, and that's why sometimes we starve while waiting for her delicious foods.

My father went for a French Cabernet, well I stopped him and dive into the kitchen to see what was there for dinner. There was dolma (stuffed minced meat in different kinds of vegetables like special kind of pepper, dried tomato, marrow etc..) . And special spicy rice cooked ala Turkish style. In dolma there is also some rice, which made me think it was a good night to open a bottle of Marques de Caceres 2009 Crianza %85 Tempranillo and %15 Garnacha Tinto & Graciano.

You could hardly see that onion skin color on the beautiful rioja which made me think that it was opened a little bit early? But man the smell was fruitful, well I could definetly smell cherry. It has been a little while since I tasted the wine and could not actually remember the tongue feelings but what I remember it is that it was a really good combination with mainly rice based food. According to me this wine should have been opened 1-2 years later. But the general feeling was good...