Tonight’s beverage is a bottle of 2002 Estrada Creek Lodi Old Vines Zinfandel. Oh, my, how I love Zins. My wife doesn’t care for them, so I am drinking down the cellar while she is gone on a business trip. Poor me.
Lush, ripe, raisiny…this is a very nice wine for the price, by which I mean cheap. There are some good wines being made in the most obscure places these days. You can still find plonk, but if you are the slightest bit informed, you can get a good glass of red made just about anywhere.
As an aside, I still have, waiting for the right moment, a split of Rutherford Hill Winery Zinfandel Port. Bacchus himself thinks this stuff is nectar. It is only available through the winery. Trust me on this one…if you like port, and you like Zins, then get a bottle of this and serve it as the dessert course to a fine dinner. You won’t be disappointed.
tonight, i have opened a bottle of sangre de torro from the torres winery in barcelona spain ( i loves me some spanish red!) and poured a generous dollop into my favorite wine glass.
i don’t have a lot of wine education, so i can’t really give an oenophilic description of the flavor, but it is pretty tasty. it is tart, and fruity tasing yet not sweet. very smooth.
i think the bottle was about ten bucks. tomoroow, i will buy a few more bottles…
so, another question: what do you drink your favorite wine from? tonight, i am sipping from a waterford crystal claret glass in the lismore pattern
Tonight I am drinking a splendid wine that I have handcrafted from my personal garden. Tomato wine. Flavored with raisins and grapes from the vines in the backyard. It smells very different than it tastes. Somewhat spicy scent with a hint of tomato. The taste is similar to a dry red wine with a touch of oak and a hint of earthy flavor. Photos of project.
