$10 Wine Tasting Winner

We recently hosted a wine tasting with a group of friends, and asked everyone to bring wine from a Spanish-speaking country for under $13. Everyone brought two of the same bottle, and the person who brought the favorite bottle won all the duplicate bottles, while the person who brought the most poorly rated wine was punished with taking his duplicate bottle home. The winner ended up being the 2 Brothers 2004 Big Tatoo Red, a blend of Syrah (50%) and Cabarnet (50%) from the Colchagua valley in Chile. The wine is more of American-style Cabarnet, with dark, heavy fruit flavors balanced out with its tannins.