Black as night. If you drink this Zin with food, that food better be a charbroiled steak. Oak, blackberry and black plum aromas lead to similar flavors in the mouth that are lightened a tad by a tart grape- blackberry-gumball note. Chewy and heavy on the tannins, it signs off with a dry, tannic, black plum-skin finish. —D.M.
Black as night. If you drink this Zin with food, that food better be a charbroiled steak. Oak, blackberry and black plum aromas lead to similar flavors in the mouth that are lightened a tad by a tart grape- blackberry-gumball note. Chewy and heavy on the tannins, it signs off with a dry, tannic, black plum-skin finish. —D.M.
Black as night. If you drink this Zin with food, that food better be a charbroiled steak. Oak, blackberry and black plum aromas lead to similar flavors in the mouth that are lightened a tad by a tart grape- blackberry-gumball note. Chewy and heavy on the tannins, it signs off with a dry, tannic, black plum-skin finish. —D.M.