$10 A BOTTLE WINES: ANOTHER EXCELLENT RED

This is an extremely pleasant red, perhaps a shade weak at first but something that improves rapidly as you put some carne mechada in your mouth. It is also ideal with an arepa con caraotas negras. At $8.99 is a bargain. This house of Andre Brunel is most reknowned for its superb Chateneauf-du-Pape. This Grenache is a modest relative, 90 percent Grenache grapes, 10 percent Carignan, from secondary vines of the Rhone Valley. It is guaranteed to give you pleasure, when combined with Venezuelan food.
Also available at TOTAL Wines but should be found in many other wine stores as well.