When I manufacture out “Rombauer” I think Chardonnay. foolish me; I have never even given them a shot at a red wine so my wife picked that up for me on a trip to California. I opened it last night with a gorgeous, thick boneless rib-eye on the grill.

The wine is Cherry red on the pour with big fruity aromas of smoke and ripe dark fruit with cedar and leather and a tip of cream which is lovely and later, blueberries and it is just really NICE!

The palate is

sound with a somewhat immature structure that would benefit from another 2 years of laying low but even still that wine is forthright full of black cherry, smoke, wood and just good stuff!

At $24, that is a really nice wine and fine treat; whether you love Merlot (and why wouldn’t you?) that is a keeper! Raise a glass and stoke up the grill (the real charcoal grill) and just say, “Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!”

Original post by PB