So I won't bore you with too many of the details ... tonight we had some folks over for dinner and I think it tied in with March break some-way some-how. Anyway, it's a Thursday night and I pulled out three bottles of wine for the masses. Two were from Ontario: an one new and an old one, plus a little something from California.
We kicked things off with something I was really interested in trying, a Coyote's Run 2005 Cabernet Franc ... and thankfully it did not disappoint. I reviewed it in full as part of my Taste it Again blog and it can be found here. The other bottle from Ontario was a beauty of a Syrah from the Delaine Vineyard, part of Jackson-Triggs, it's too young to have a Taste it Again written about it so you can read my original review from November 2013 here.
So the focus of this What I'm Drinking is a 7 Deadly Zins from Michael David out of California ... this one is probably one of the most recognized names in Zin, no matter where I have gone and say I love Zinfandel inevitably someone will say to me, "Have you tried that Seven Deadly one?" The answer is, many times. The last one I had was showing some Syrah like qualities of smoked meat, this particular night it was an older 2009 version and while it was very tasty it was also quite typical of Zin: smoked raspberry and cherry with a seam of vanilla running through it. Delicious and just what I expected, but nothing earth shattering, I would have to say that the 7 Deadly is getting better than this standard version they put out in 2009.
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