We were in the mood for something different when we purchased the Olaia Dehesa de Rubiales 2004, and different is certainly what we ended up with.  This wine bears very little resemblance to any of the others we’ve reviewed previously.
The Olaia is composed mostly of Prieto Picudo (50%) – a darkly colored, nearly extinct grape that is grown almost exclusively in Spain and […]

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Try this out: bake some Nestle toll house cookies and taste them with a glass of Niepoort Vertente Douro.  Strange as it sounds, this Portuguese red is a fantastic match with warm chocolate chip cookies, as we found out this evening, but this is just one of several features that make it a very interesting wine.
What else?  Light body and high […]

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