It is Friday the 13th, so we decided to do something superstitious and so paid a visit to a local DC wine bar, the VINOTECA, at 1940 11th Street NW. It turned out to be a very pleasant, popular spot. The wine list looked good, the service and the tapas-style food were very good as well. We started off with a a flight, called "Cab Ride". This included the following:
1.Ridge, 2007, Santa Cruz, CA.- good, spicy, ripe fruit but a bit acidic to our taste. Had the smokey feel which often is the characteristic of this winery. A 2.5.
2. Charles Smith, Chateau Smith, Columbia Valley, Washington state. An ok wine, not overwhelming. A bit "grapey" finish. A 2.0.
3. Longview, "Devil's Elbow", Adelaide Hills, Australia. The best of the three, this is a very nice cab from Australia. Muted fruit huge body, long tobacco finish. A 3.0.
We had several small dishes, such as crab cake, manchego and goat cheeses and lots of excellent olives. We had two additional and familiar wines (see below).
Since the bar was getting full at this point, we moved our operation into their delightful courtyard bar. The latter was very pleasant. We are told that on Sundays they have flamenco dancing, we will come back for that.
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