Senorio de la Antigua

Posted On November 5, 2009

The wines in Cuba (apart from the Cuban one I tried) seem to be mostly from Spain or Chile.  This is not surprising, considering the country’s heritage and location, and the US embargo.  There are some quite decent ones.  One I tried in the bar of the Hotel Nacional is a Spanish white, Senorio de la Antigua.  It is a 2008 at 11.5 percent, pleasantly crisp and with a nice fruit tang up front.  Given warm evenings with many sea breezes coming in, and the fact that the bar is an outdoor one, it makes for a pleasant experience, especially if it is accompanied by one of the Havana cigars from those boxes stacked up behind the bottle.