($29, USA Wine West): The label says it all. This bombastic Grenache-based wine is massive and intense, but it not hot or rough, carrying, as Grenache often does, its 15.9% stated alcohol remarkably well. For all its ripeness, it actually has a pleasantly bitter, not sweet, finish. It would be perfect with a garlic-infused roasted leg or lamb or long braised short ribs. You’d be hard pressed to find a food that will overpower this wine. It will shatter you.
87 Michael Apstein May 7, 2013