Peruvian Wine

I had my first taste of Peruvian wine today.  We had ordered a pizza from Morengo’s and asked for a bottle of wine to be delivered together with the pizza. 

Not knowing anything about Peruvian wines, Percy said that Gran Tinto is one of the better Peruvian wines, and being a 2009 variety, it wasn’t too bad. 

It is produced in Ica (which is where I am going next!), the wine region of Peru located about 300km from Lima. 

However, Percy also mentioned that although they have a region for production of wines, the wines are not of export quality, and basing this solely on the one we ordered, I have to agree. 

The Gran Tinto we tried tasted ok, but I would classify it as a table wine – Fairly young, with just subtle flavours.