Stray Dog Zinfandel has got to be our favorite economy priced, daily drinking Zin. There is no pretense in this wine, you don’t have to think real hard about it when you drink it and it just goes so well with any kind of food off the grill. We served this to friends at a small wine tasting that we hosted because we had soooooo many wines that we wanted to go through that week. Although our normal choice would have been red meat with this wine, we really liked it with the shrimp cocktail as the spice laden finish of the wine complimented the horseradish in the cocktail sauce beautifully. Next, we went to the chocolate fondue pot (oh yeah!) and the hot fudgie chocolate over strawberries was just wonderful with our glass of Stray Dog.
The wine starts with a nose of red ripe fruit which follows through to the palate where you also get a quick layer of chocolate and blueberry before the light spice of the Zinfandel grape hits you in the back of your mouth. The wine finishes with gentle oak & tannins and slight spice. It is just a lovely daily drinker for the Zinfandel crowd. At $10.99 this wine gets a very solid 4 Stars — Highly Recommended
