WTN: Viura (Rioja) & Marsanne-Roussanne (Mendocino)

• 2007 Agricola La Bastida Rioja Tierra de Fernández - Gómez - Spain, La Rioja, Rioja (7/22/2010)
  14% abv. A sample kindly(?) given to me from my ex-job at the wine importer (I hope they won't start importing this!). Dark, looks like a urine sample from someone with serious nephrological problems. Smells of oak and banana. Tasted sweet and harshly oaky. At least it has fair acidity! I wonder why there is a correlation between how much emphasis is put on terroir on the bottle and how spoofulated the wine actually is? If this is the sort of stuff my ex-boss gives me, I must have been a very bad worker...
  
• 2008 Crushpad Töövi Alder Springs - USA, California, North Coast, Mendocino (7/22/2010)
  13,7% abv; 50/50 Marsanne - Roussanne. From forumite and friend Asko's project in Crushpad, California. Sees a little time in neutral oak. Quite a lovely scent: something refreshingly greenish yet the fruit is broad and honeyed. It manages to be savoury and mineral despite the fruit and generous richness of body. And best of all, the acidity seems on the high end for a blend of white Rhône varieties. I rarely say this about Rhône white grapes, but this was moreish. Very good.
  

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Some mightily weird stuff finds its way from Spain to Finland.