The Tenebres GSM 2019 is a $5.99 Trader Joe’s exclusive sourced from vineyards in France’s Languedoc region. The name Tenebres translates to “Darkness.” A GSM Red blend is a wine that originated in the Southern Rhone Valley in France and is a blend of Syrah, Grenache, and Mourvedre.The Languedoc is the largest wine region in France and is where much of the everyday wine is produced. High-end villages and sub-districts can get pricey, but most of the wine produced is affordable.The majority of the folks in Europe who have a bottle of wine with the meal drink value-priced wine. It is hard to budget two $30 bottles of wine a day on most budgets. $5.99 (Tenebres GSM 2019) is the norm.When I first discovered Trader Joe’s, I thought that wines such as the Tenebres GSM 2019 could not be any good. Wine marketing had me believing that the bottle’s price was directly tied to the quality of the wine.It took me some time to figure out that people from wine-producing European countries drank cheap wine and like it. Nobody goes through the effort of making a meal only to ruin everything with a bad bottle of wine. Yes, there are wines for all price-points and all occasions, but quality wine can be inexpensive. A GSM Blend is one of the two classic French wine blends. The most famous is the Bordeaux blend, including Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Cabernet Franc, along with Petite Verdot and Malbec’s lesser amounts. There is the GSM Rhone blend of Grenache, Syrah, and Mourvedre.A solid Bordeaux blend may be a little difficult to find for value wine drinkers since the key to that blend is the interplay between the Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon. Bordeaux produces some of the best Merlot globally, but it can be difficult to find excellent Merlot at a lower price point.With a GSM Blend, the attraction is not the excellence of the two main grapes; each of the three grapes adds something to the blend that the others do not possess. A $5.99 Trader Joe’s wine, Tenebres GSM 2019, can work. The blend does not need the best vineyards to be excellent; the three grapes need to offer what is expected.I have yet to taste this wine, but the fact that the blend is one-third Grenache, one-third Syrah, and one-third Mourvedre gives me hope that this wine may drink well. The winemakers are not hiding anything; every grape is added in equal parts. They are not using mostly the grape that is showing well with smaller amounts of the others. That indicates they had confidence in the entire blend. The alcohol content is 13.5%.Tenebres GSM 2019 Tasting NotesThe color is a barely see-thru cherry red with black highlights. The nose is rich and jammy, with blackberry, cherry, oak spice, baking spices, black pepper, licorice, and bitter chocolate. Some scents come from oak barrel aging, which is surprising to find in a $5.99 wine.This is a wine with a silky mouthfeel and a solid array of flavors. It starts with blackberry, cola, soft spice, and black cherry. The mid-palate adds blueberry with a bit of cream, a rougher splash of spice, a salty sensation, and a late cinnamon slap.I mentioned before that this type of wine is often included in the daily meal. Value-priced food wines often do not sip well; they are made to balance when accompanying food. The Tenebres GSM 2019 drinks very well.The SummaryThe Tenebres GSM 2019 is a tasty wine. It does not taste exactly like a classic Rhone Valley GSM, it is from the Languedoc after all, but it does sip well.I am no longer shocked when a seriously inexpensive wine offers an enjoyable drinking experience.I prefer the Rhone version of GSM blends, but you cannot beat the price for the Tenebres GSM 2019.
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it’s the day from cheep windfinder.com
coming at you at the end of February in
Chicago’s thaw we had like 18 in of
snow a week ago and now it’s down to
puddles which is the way it usually goes
and today we got a one
a Trader Joe’s 599 wi from
frad you know it’s kind of funny cuz
when I first started the
website when I drank a wine under $10 12
years
ago it was taking your pallet into your
own hands it’s like cover me I’m going
in you never know what you got and a lot
of the wines had flaws there’s something
wrong with them that’s why they were 10
bucks
they if everything had gone RI or
whatever they would have cost more and
nowadays $5.99 wines are tasty and what
I have here I got the take a whole
minute to get to what it is it’s
um
tender GSM 2019 tenor means darkness in
catalonian
French there’s some useless information
for you and it’s a GSM which is ganach
sarra mdra
which is a blend that was made famous in
the Ron Valley ChatOn nup
Pop I mean it’s one of the top you know
there’s the Bordeaux blend and then
there’s the GSM blend everybody tries to
copy that and actually for Value wine
drinkers the bordo
blend is basically the interplay between
really excellent cabinet s and really
excellent
Mero and for Value wine drink finding
really excellent Mero you can find good
cabs but finding really excellent
Mero and you know not
always but with the GSM
blend it’s not about getting the best
wines from the best Vineyards it’s about
three
grapes that add something to the blend
the other doesn’t have the SAR could be
fat and ripe and juicy and
spicy the ganache is lean and sleek
kind of dark the name comes of darkness
comes from the ganache basically mro’s
got a little bit of another flavor going
in there and it gives a little more
structure it’s a little tighter so you
put the three of things things together
and they all kind of have what the other
doesn’t and the one thing I thought when
I saw this blend is that it’s a third of
each you know the third ganache a third
SAS a third mdra they’re not hiding
anything you know it’s not like uh for a
GSM it’s
80% and then 10% of the other two of
ganache and you know cuz they had some
good ganache and thought gsms might sell
better n ain’t that they went uh they
did this one honest and it actually
tastes really good I $5.99 it’s got Oak
flavors Oak scents more than flavors it
smells of Oak I’m going to take a
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sip it’s smooth on the palet it’s got
some nice ripe flavors it’s got a little
bit of spice actually a couple different
flavors of
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spice yeah it’s a little bit more
complex I mean you know I used to like I
said used to be he hases to drink $10
wines and now you know $5.99 I expect
them to be good you know when I find one
that I don’t like it’s like H what
happened you know that and another thing
about these wines he’s inexpense of
Trader Joe’s wines you got to remember
Trader Joe’s is a Aldi there’s two Aldi
North and South I think Trader Joe’s is
Aly
North but
in these countries where they drink wine
with their meal you know Europe I mean
France and Spain and Italy there’s all
these and people in the cities and you
know if you live near Winer where you go
get it from your Winery but people in
the city buy it from all get value
priced wines from Aldi
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and you know and they’re having with
their meal they’re cooking a meal
they’re not drinking bad wine after they
spent all day cooking their meal they’re
drinking wine they love and it only cost
a few euros and when I first got into
wine I kind of believed that the price
of the
wine was a direct correlation to the
quality of the wine and turns out that
ain’t true I mean there’s different
wines for different reasons and you know
I like expensive wine I’m saying that
they’re a fraud or they’re not right or
anything I’m just saying that for
everyday purposes you can do really well
for not much
money and then got me talking about this
one we’re going to take another sip
because it’s that good I mean I like
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it and normally food
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wine doesn’t drink well it’s a little
bit off balance it bounces when you eat
with the meal when you take a bite of
food that’s when it bounces but this
thing drinks really
nice you know it’s like when I first
started this drinks like a something
between 10 and 15 bucks it’s amazing um
think I got a bordo blend just to coming
up next just because I got me thinking
about
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gsms so that’s it for me I had a 599
French from the languid is not from the
r from the Lang do got to mention that
part so keep it cheap adios
be safe stay warm and bye-bye