The Wine: 2008 Old Vines Zinfandel
The Price: $16.99 at Safeway
St Francis is a Sonoma County, California winery. The grapes for this wine were harvested from vines that are over 50 years old, with many of the grapes from 100+ year old vines. The wine is aged from 12 to 15 months in American Oak.
The bottle was stopped with a synthetic cork and decanted an hour before tasting. The win is dark purple in color and has aromas of raspberry, black cherry, vanilla and blueberry.
This is a very smooth, velvety wine. It is bursting with big fruit flavors of cherry and blackberry with a hint of tobacco. This is a fantastic wine at a very good price. It's definitely one worth picking up.
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