Friday, November 27, 2009

Saturday Night – Mick’s busy in the kitchen – Part 2

For the main course Mick did Diablo Burger with bacon and 3yr. old white cheddar and paired it with a 2008 Seghesio Zinfandel.

"Diablo Burger with Zippy!"

The nose on the Zinfandel consisted of blackberry, fudge and heat/alcohol. Tasting the wine you got dark cherry, clove and licorice as the dominate flavours. The structure of the wine seemed a little off as the tannin was low to non-existent, good acidity, high alcohol and lingering finish. Seghesio usually makes an outstanding Zinfandel but this one comes up a little short of their usual effort. It was a pretty good pairing with the burger though.

"Not Seghesio's best effort to date"

Here is the group rating for the wine – Mick - 88, Mark - 87, Kathy – 88, Amy - 87, Overall – 87.5.

There was no LCBO information on this wine so I'm assuming that Mick picked it up in the US.

The burgers were really good but super spicy – they aren’t called Diablo burger for nothing!

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