Casal da Eira Red

OK let's start...

The 'numero uno' is the Portuguese popular, king of the home chefs, delight of the rabbit and hard veal meat vindaloo ... Casal da Eira!

It comes neatly packed on a carton that can be of 250 mL or 1 L and showing a 11.5 alcohol volume.

It's made of a blend of several CE country wines and it proudly bears that in the package.

On the side of the carton its brags about having a fine bouquet and an excellent taste let's leave that for later...

This wine is well known to figure in the bottom scale of the wines and is intensively used as a bottom of the chart comparison wine from were no wine as ever returned.

Let's see how it fits in the nose and in the mouth at the convenient temperature of 15ºC.

In the nose shows some slight hints of red fruits though very moderate - way down in the bottom - grasping the vegetable aroma. As it gets hotter - the alcohol starts to kick in and oh boy forget those fruits and hello green grass!

In the mouth is almost tasteless, just a hint of red fruits - they're really there so it seems - but the aftertaste is remarkably long and a bit - less than I thought - acidulous. It goes up to 3/4 of the tongue and it considerably dries up all your palate leaving your tongue and internal cheeks like a napalm swept area: dry and tingly.

After all my memory was trying to make this wine worst than it really is... all things considered it deserves a 8,5 out of 20 which is by no means all that bad... even for a wine that is commonly used in binge drinking mixed with different kinds of sodas. Oh... and it costs 0,49€ a 250 mL carton... take that into account!
It may be re-evaluated after tasting other zurrapas of its kind.