Ruby hue with aromas of predominant black cherry, spice, hint of wood.
Palate--Flaccid first impression, with fatigued structure and exhausted finish. Palate is weak and while not showing the classic signs of "aging" this is definitely on its way out.
This is a Trader Joe's wine that has sold for as much as $35 but they are dumping it for $8. Probably precisely because it is meeting a quick demise. Below I have posted the same wine reviewed 2 years ago so you can see the effect of aging on this particular wine.
Same wine two years ago!
Quite a nice intense hue with aromas of dark plum, blackberry with a bouquet of gently spiced fruit and oak.
Palate--*a minerally first impression, with awkward mid palate, confused fruit and structure tightly wound and not very pleasant.
(This wine was just opened and needs to breathe. There seems to be potential here but out of the gate it is not impressive. I expect this to change.)
*After some "air time" and having with my dinner it is indeed a much better wine. And while I have written before regarding "food wines" versus "quaffing wines" (wines being drunk by themselves) it bears repeating. There are structural differences between the two styles of wine. With food wines, both the wine and food is enhanced by each other. Quaffing wines may be excellent with food but are also excellent sipping them all by themselves. And of course there are exceptions in both directions but this is the nut shell version.
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