Name: Grizzly Bear
Colour: Red
Country: USA
Region: Central Valley, California
Year: 2007
Producer: Zimmermann-Graeff & Mueller
Grape Varieties: Cabernet Sauvignon
Alcohol: 13%
Purchase Price: £3.33 (£10 for 3 offer, Sainsburys)
Notes:
Maker's tasting notes – A full-bodies red wine with masses of plum and blackcurrant flavours, finished with toasty oak and subtle chocolate notes. Excellent with steak or roast dinner.
Somnambulist's verdict: I don’t often choose Cab Sav varietals especially not at the bargain-basement end but somehow this found its way into the shopping trolley and I’m very pleased it did. This is a very quaffable red, loads of fruity flavours (I’d add cherries to the black fruits mentioned above) with a smooth long finish. I have no idea how a Mosel weingut ends up bottling Californian reds but it doesn’t really matter – at 3 bottles for a tenner I am filling the cellar with this excellent everyday drinker.
