Some fairtrade red wines ...

After the quite succesfull white fairtrade wine I drank last weekend, I wanted to try the red Malbec from the same cooperation, la Riojana.

Unfortunately I must say that we did not even finish our glasses as both me and my wife did not like this wine. The taste was far too fruity and sweer (for our taste). In fact we both thought it was more like some kind of softdrink than wine. Probably some people will find this wine very nice, but it is not our taste.

Persistent as we were we tried a second bottle of red fairtrade wine. This time an organic Pinotage (2008), from Stellar Organics.
Although this wine was somewhat more to our liking, it did not taste like the other pinotage wines, like the excellent Raka Pinotage, that we are used to and that has a lot more body than this soft, almost dull, red wine

In order to have at least one wine that we liked this evening we settled for the much better Reserva Malbec from the bodega Trivento in Mendoza (Argentina). This wine has much more body, an explicit vanilla aroma, but still enough fruit to be more than simply another oaked merlot wine. It is only 1 Euro more expensive than the Pinotage above, but it is not fairtrade.