City Vino Focus wine: New Year, New You

New year, new you—step out on faith and let bold wines take the lead! Deep ruby, inky, garnet—they hit the eye with confidence before even touching your palate. Aromas roar with black cherry, bramble, cassis, and dark plum, spiced with pepper, clove, or smoky vanilla, maybe even a whisper of leather or cedar. On the tongue, they’re full-bodied, tannic, and unapologetically structured, bursting with layers of flavor that demand to be noticed. This is your palate speaking, your authority shining—splash those flavors boldly, strut that bottle down the runway, and own every sip like no one could ever overrule your taste
Josep Grau Viticultor L’Efect Volador Montsant Catalonia Spain 2023 60% Grenache, 30% Carignan, 10% Syrah. Opens with red florals, bramble, black cherry, anise, and savory tones of bacon-wrapped date, maple, and black pepper. The palate adds sun-kissed black plum, dried cranberry, cooked blackberry, pomegranate, and a light minty-herbal thread, supported by touches of vanilla, wood char, smoke, leather, and earthy slate.
Clos Siguier Cahors France 2020 95% Malbec, 5% Tannat. Oens with black cherry, red currant, and ripe plum, layered with cool black tea, licorice, clove, and a subtle earthy note of crushed stone and dried sage. This is a fruit-driven wine, showing black cherry, stewed blackberry, blueberry, and pomegranate. A long graceful, mineral lined finish with lingering dark fruity and spice.
Tait Wines The Ball Buster Barossa Valley Australia 2022 77% Shiraz, 12% Merlot, 11% Cabernet Sauvignon. Intense aromas of sweet tobacco, mocha, black olive, black currents, stewed plums, cherry and chocolate. Full bodied palate; blackberry, plum, white pepper, wet stone, s with a long-lasting savory finish
Domaine de Terrebrune Terre d'Ombre Rouge Provence France 2022 80% Mourvèdre, 10% Grenache, 10% Cinsault. Aromas of earth, herbs, blackberry, blueberry, bramble that all follow to the palate. Flavors of plum, chocolate, caramel, fig, cinnamon, cedar, wet leaves, forest floor. There are many layers of complexity and intensity. Medium bodied, medium minus in acidity, with a long finish.