Bodegas Enguera “Pelta” Valencia, Spain

80% tempranillo and 20% monastrell

Fruit forward aromas with blackberry and herbs.
Blackberry flavors spill out of the glass with a tease of leather and spice.
A very pleasing cocktail wine!

What the heck is Valencia?
Grapes have been grown in Valencia since the Neolithic era. Valencia is Spain's third-largest city and biggest wine export center. Better known nationally for the lusciously sweet and flowery wine Moscatel [Muscat] grape. Moscatel, named for the grape that makes the DO's [denominacion de origen] dessert wine, is a low-lying area just southwest of Valencia city.
Valencia DO lies near Spain's east coast, with most of the region's inland rather than near the sea. The DO is divided into four sub-regions, Valentino, Alto Turia, Moscatel and Clariano.
Valencia's most popular grapes are:
merseguera, malvasía, tempranillo, monastrell and moscatel.

Isn’t Valencia an orange!
Name does indeed comes from Valencia Spain, known for sweet orange trees, which were originally from India. A patented orange hybrid was later sold by William Wolfskill to the Irvine Ranch owners, who make the orange famous. The success of this crop in Southern California led to the naming of Orange County, California.