I picked up a full flight of Zinfandels at the Julios "25% off" sale and Mrs. Vino and I dug right in with this Cline Zin - pretty much before I had gotten the remainder of my wine haul into the house. I was very disappointed on the first taste. I immediately reached for the "defuser" because the wine we was very tight. Quick sidetrack story. I'm watching every possible Pats/Giants Super Bowl pre-game show and tonight I watched a great segment where Drew Bledsoe joked that in his new career as a wine maker he needs to write the tasting notes for the wine and the X-NFL QB feels a bit awkward writing flowery descriptions of his wine. This brings me back to me describing this Zin as "tight". This 2010 Zin needs some air and finally about halfway through the bottle I'm getting the classic Zinfandel perpperyness and YES I'm liking it with the Friday night pizza. Another interesting wine experience tonight. Not sure if I'll recommend this Zin or not - I'll have to wait to see how the rest of the Zin flight tastes. (BTW - Mrs. Vino didn't get much of this wine becaue I was quaffing it, but she says it is a typical Zin peppery wine. Isn't that what I just said?) I've linked up some tasting notes from another cool wine site which identified a boatload more flavors than I did. Maybe Bledsoe helped them out.
