2003 Torres Cabernet Sauvignon (Gran Coronas)
I like to analyze the wine that I drink at home not only for how it tastes, but also by the way that it got to our house. We have random wines that we bought, not knowing anything about except for what the back of the bottle says. We have wines that people have bought us as gifts, wine that we read about somewhere and just HAD to have it, and so on and so on. Sometimes these are the reasons that I pick out a particular bottle of wine to drink one night or another.
Tommy’s sister Elena bought us this bottle of wine for an anniversary gift. She went to England and Spain over the summer and went to the Torres winery in Spain. This bottle of wine traveled in a little wooden box all the way from Spain to Charleston. Her story of running here and there trying to catch trains and then planes while dragging a suitcase and carrying a wooden box with six wines in it was rather humorous.
This wine was a very nice Cabernet. I would say that if you’re looking for a Cab to drink, this was a very good example of a delicious Cabernet. It smelled and tasted of sour cherries. The finish had that big fruity bang of a finish that good Cabernets have. We opened the bottle and let it sit for about 90 minutes before we started drinking it. It went well on its own and also with our steaks that we ate.
I’ve been trying to rate the wines that I drink on a 100-point scale. Tommy has been doing this and records his ratings in our Cellar Tracker. I usually agree on the score that he gives a wine, but every once in a while we differ. We both agreed that this wine deserves 89 points. While it was a very good Cabernet, it didn’t have anything remarkable about it that would have pushed it to the 90 points.