Good Drink. Good Deal.

For some reason our love for a Zinfandel has taken front and center in our wine drinking life. Darin and I have had a few good bottles of wine lately and they've mostly been Zinfandel. Now we seem to be drifting down the “Zin” isle when we are at a liquor store (which seems more often lately). We are building a good reserve of Zinfandel wines in our small, but filled with love, wine cellar.

One “Zin” wine that we like was the Ravenswood Sonoma County Old Vine from the 2006 vintage. It’s good (actually we thought it was very good) bottle of wine for under $20 (under $15 when on sale – you can’t beat that). Although it has an ageability of 10 years we can’t help ourselves to drink it now. It’s a great Zinfandel and typical in “Zin” style – deep, dark, full and spicy (love that). The flavor of the wine is raspberry and blackberry. Darin smells vanilla and I smell cinnamon.

As we continue with our new love affair with Zinfandel wines we have found that Sonoma County produces some of the best. We are going to keep trying them out and we will let you know.

WineyJanet is all about finding good wines for a fair price that those of us “ordinary” people who love a glass a wine for the purpose of drinking wine can enjoy. Please don’t drink and drive.