Finally, finally, the distributer shows up with a case of Jaume Mesqueda Negre, we have been out for weeks.
Jaume Mesquida was my first big personal wine discovery I found it at a Spanish wine tasting where--unusually for me--I was trying to take copious notes. My tasting notes for this wine was "WOW". Evocative, if not copious. The first time I recommended it to somebody who actually bought it, he sent his wife back the next day with instructions to buy eight more.
Jaume Mesqeda is the product of of a brother and sister team from Mallorca. Even though the silhouette looks exactly like Robert Mondavi or maybe Alfred Hitchcock, it is in fact their father--Jaume Mesquida. Now, since we first brought it inevery time I talk about this wine I mispronounce his first name a different way, is it Ywahm? Is it Ywahmay? I had no idea until one of our customers who is actually from Barcelona (I'm sure she is telling the truth because she pronounced it Barthalona) declared with great confidence that it is Djow-may a version I would not have hit on in a thousand years.
What neat about this wine is that, beside the fact that is from the island of Mallorca it is made from a native Mallorcan grape that you have never had before--the callet. It's a deep, rich, very very austere with silky tannins but still a little more fruit forward than most Spanish wine. But what's really interesting bout this wine is that you have never tasted fruit flavors in wine like this before because you have never had this grape before. Run out and buy this wine. Unfortunately the exchange has not been kind to us and the price has moved up from $17 to $23--but that's okay, because even if they charged $80 it would still be a fantastic value.
Oh, since nobody has heard of this wine before and it's not completely clear from the review I thought I should mention, the wine---it's red.
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