José Peñín will be examining Montsant wines next Tuesday during the annual tasting for his Guía de los Vinos de España 2011 wine guide. Accompanied by one of his auxhiliary tasters, Javier Luengo, Peñín will analyse more than 130 vins. Some wines have already been released and others will be coming out in the next few months.

The tasting will take place at VITEC, the Scientific and Technological Wine Centre in Falset.

DO Montsant in Peñín Wine Guide 2010

The tasting for the 2010 wine guide has shown that the DO Montsant has more wines than most wine appellations over the 90 point mark. Or, in other words, 57 wines of the 133 were rated as “excellent”. The rest, were mostly qualified as “very good” which is to say they gained over 80 points.

DO Montsant wines according to José Peñín

Red Wines

Young: fruity, meaty and flavoursome.

Aged in oak: concentrated fruit, potent, meaty with mineral notes.

White Wines

Predominant variety of White Grenache; body, structure and herby touches of  Mediterranean mountains.

Predominant variety of Macabeo: light, fine, fresh and fruity.

Rosés

Flavoursome, fruity, pleasant with well pronounced red fruit.

Traditional Wines

Voluptuous with aromas and taste of raisins and jammy fruits.