BC (British Columbia) wine month up here in the great white north. i managed to have a BC wine before the end of the month! This is such an easy drinking Zinfandel!
French and Hungarian oak, 13% new. Beautiful deep red. wonderful, long legs!
Sweet and bright nose! Wild raspberry, strawberry and Bing cherry. The slightest bit of black fruit, some blueberry. Bit of spice.
Crunchy and sweet palate. Silky, fruity, don't taste the 14.5% alcohol. Bright red fruit! Sweet wild raspberry, cherry, and strawberry. The only blue fruit I think I can nail down is a bit of sweet blueberry.
Finish gives a bit of vanilla, oak and baking spices; cloves and cinnamon.
Paired wonderfully with pork tenderloin and BBQ sweet potato. Very happy I have another bottle, and from what I can find, easily accessible, to enjoy again!
by thoosethecaboose
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BC wines are really stepping up their game these days, especially in Okanagan Valley. Your tasting notes make this sound like perfect match for BBQ – that sweetness and fruit-forward profile probably cut through the smokiness really well. I had guests at my place last summer who brought similar zinfandel from up there and we paired it with grilled salmon, worked surprisingly good together. The oak treatment sounds balanced too, not overpowering like some of those heavy California zins that taste like drinking a campfire