Bodegas Vibe, Utiel-Requena (Valencia, Spain) 2016

 This wine shows more rusticity than most bottlings of Bobal, but that’s a side worth seeing.  The texture is a bit more grainy and grippy than most of the wines I tasted in a concentrated period during March of 2019, and the flavors likewise display a slightly earthy undertone, but a pleasant one that seems coherent with the wine’s other sensory attributes.  To be clear, there’s nothing “dirty” at all about this (no brett, for example), just a gutsy character that would make this a terrific partner for grilled lamb.