Friday Night – 2005 Rosenblum Zinfandel

As Canadian Thanksgiving was this past weekend, Mick and Amy/Kathy and I had family commitments this weekend, so we decided to get together for a quick dinner on Friday instead. We settled on ordering wings and ribs for dinner. We have a local wing place that is quite good.

We went and picked up the food and retired back to Mick and Amy’s to eat. Mick had a couple of Zins out and we picked the 2005 Rosenblum Zinfandel to go with dinner. Rosenblum Zinfandels are a long time favourite of mine and is listed as one of my $20 favourites.

The 2000-2004 Rosenblum Zinfandels were a great value for money, I had the 2006 back in the spring and was extremely disappointed. I was curious to see if the 2005 leaned towards the earlier years or was closer to the 2006 in taste.

The nose was quite nice with raspberry, leather and sour cherry showing through. The structure of the wine was ok as it had a nice mouth feel but the acid seemed to be a touch high. There was a raspberry/strawberry taste with a woody finish happening with this wine on its own.

The 2005 Rosenblum was good with the wings and ribs as they helped cut the sharpness of the high acid.

Here is the group rating for the wine -Mick - 86, Mark - 87, Kathy – 86, Amy - 87, Overall – 86.5.

Here is the LCBO Information –

Rosenblum Zinfandel

Vintages 284653
750 mL bottle
Price: $ 17.95
Wine, Red Wine,
14.1% Alcohol/Vol.
Sugar Content : D
Made in: California/Californie, United States
By: Diageo Canada Inc
Release Date: Oct 11, 2008

Description - Rosenblum is one of California's Zinfandel masters. This version serves up-front aromas of strawberry preserves, ripe berries and mocha. Full-bodied, this delicious Zin possesses rich and plush flavours that are well-balanced by acidity. It has a very nice spicy-berry finish. Excellent with prune-and-almond-stuffed pork tenderloin or grilled back ribs.

The 2005 Rosenblum wasn’t as good as the previous years but was much better than the 2006. Hopefully the 2007 will get back to the quality of the 2000-2004 years.

Cheers!

Mark