Rosenblum Cellars is my favorite zinfandel producer and occasionally, I up the ante and splurge on a more expensive bottle. This one lists for $40 on the company website, but came in at a couple dollars less over at Canal's on route 70 in Marlton, NJ. And while the website recommended that this was best with roast boar, it was just coincidence that I had this right after having some Andouille sausage.

This wine gives you deep -- very deep -- berry, as well as some nice exotic spices, and also wood aspects that blend together in the most mellifluous combination. This is a wine that would go great with anything like duck, grouse, goose, turkey or pheasant, as well as beef, bison, venison, rabbit, bear and/or boar.

You are immediately hit with berry mixed with some nice oak (I'm guessing French, but I can be wrong). The berry is not over the top, but ample enough to sate your gullet. The wood aspect dries it out just enough, but not too much where it's too dry for most people used to white wines. While their website says boysenberry and cassis, I get cassis and just the slightest bit of black cherry. I can't quite catch the particular spice that I am tasting, but there is black pepper and something else as well.

The color is a lovely dark purple that says the same under the light. The weight is light, but not too light, and easy to swallow, not lingering on your tongue too long nor too short. The wine drops off rather fast (the flavor profile), but you get a demure finish that lasts at least through twenty seconds.