This is a Trader Joe's wine recommended by Jason's Wine Blog. Jason and I agree on most of the TJ Italian selections, including this one.
The color is a deep, dark ruby red. Aromas and flavors are sleek and sophisticated with notes of dark cherries, herbs and flowers. It's medium bodied, a nice dinner wine in the mode of an inexpensive Bordeaux. Flavors are persistent and fruit-oriented, ripe but with a firm structure from the grape peels. I don't detect any new oak influence. On the second night, it was just as good, maybe a little better, but this is not a wine for the cellar. It's drinking nicely right now.
I believe I paid $5.99 for this wine, an excellent value, although there are many good values--even the high production Citra--from the Montepulciano appellation.
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Do you cook, as well, Fred? I started drinking wine with Citra in the nineties, and it was more tannic then, but I was astonished at how food friendly it was. And cheap!
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I didn't say it was a great wine, and I've only had it once or twice. But I thought it was a decent value--better than anything from Gallo or Carlo Rossi.
ReplyDeleteWhat I don't like about jug wines from California (and from Italy) is that they tend to be too sweet.
This is interesting that the wine's color is a deep, dark ruby red, I think it should be very fine, I'd like to taste it because I had never heard about this wine.m10m
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