Monday, June 22, 2009

2006 Four Vines Maverick Zinfandel

I bought this after upon seeing a Four Vines bottling without a screw top, e.g. Stelvin closure (Here's one example of a winery using them, and then there's Plumpjack or the Rhone Rangers' Bonny Doon (Flash required).

This is a 14.9% fruit bomb from Amador County filled with bright and jammy fruit, leather, and black pepper.

Think steak au poivre or for cheese: a creamy robiola like La Tur, Pecorino Toscano, Blue Ledge Farm's Lake's Edge or Cypress Grove's Humbolt Fog, Jasper Hill Farm's Bayley Hazen or their clothbound cheddar, and King's Island Dairy's Roaring 40's blue.

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