This is our first ever Triple Wine of the Week. This is as good as Chenin gets anywhere in the world. Really delicious melon fruit, semi-sweet, but with crisp refreshing acid. Sweet enough for cocktail or poolside drinking, but dry enough for food, especially spicy Asian cuisine. And what it begs for in my mind is a sunny fall day in San Francisco, sitting at The Waterfront restaurant, with my special friend and a whole Dungeness crab.
Case purchases very highly recommended.
A blend of 68 percent Cabernet Sauvignon and 32 percent Merlot, it's a wine meant to be consumed young. Friendly berry fruit with cherry notes. There's also some mild herbaceousness and a spot of spicy oak vanillin and maybe a little nutmeg. Drink it with everything from burgers to beefsteaks, lamb chops to pork loin, or pasta with a wide variety of sauces. Amazing fruit cocktail of a wine at half or less of what such wines usually sell for.