Saturday Night – What was that 3rd wine we had? – Part 3

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For the main course of the evening Mick did his famous marmalade and Dijon barbequed chicken wings.  He paired the wings with a 2006 Optima “Dry Creek Valley” Zinfandel.

The nose on the wine had a lovely mix of blackberry, cherry, pepper, cedar and leather aromas on it.  Tasting the wine, you are going to get punched in the face with a huge cherry flavour and not much else.  The wine came across as being very dry as it needed more acidity to offset the tannin in it.  The wine was a decent pairing with the chicken wings but we have had better matches.  Overall it was  a solid but very forgettable wine.

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

There was no LCBO information on this wine, so I’m assuming this was a purchase Mick made in the US.  Hopefully he will be trolling the Blog later and add more details for it in the comment section.

For dessert, Amy picked up a wide selection of cupcakes.  They looked great but I had hit that “Not even a wafer thin mint” stage and passed on them.  Kathy though assures me they were excellent and that I missed out big time by passing on them.

Thanks to Mick and Amy for hosting the dinner and I'm already looking to next week.

Cheers!

Mark