Tasting - Zinfandel

 

Name: Freakshow
Variety: Zinfandel
Country: United States
Region: American Canyon, CA
Vintage: 2018
Price: $20

Wine Review: "Adding a softer, sexier side to Michael David's band of Freaks, this medium bodied Zinfandel spotlights blazing huckleberry and oak aromas while flirting with notes of anise. Flavors of strawberry, pomegranate and clove amaze the tongue with a spice-laced and tantalizing finish. 

Wine Folly: According the to the textbook Zinfandel is the ideal Turkish, Moroccan, and Arabic cusine, which brings out the grape's spice like flavors. This wine should exihibit some fruity flavors with a nice full body and should have some higher alcoholic levels (pg 243). 

My Review: The first smell test gives me some real jammy flavors like some kind of raspberry and some sweeter aspects to it as well. I also am gettings some stronger peppery smells from underneath all the other smells present in the wine. The first tastes give me some decently strong tannins presesnt in the wine, almost similar to some cabernets that I have tried. It has a decent body, but it kinda of gets slightly ruined by some weird acidic tastes on the back of my tongue. The jammy flavors are kinda of hidden under layers of some peppers in the wine. I did not try this wine with any food but if I were I think it would go good with some smoky foods.