Red Truck California Red Wine '07
The Nitty Gritty:
- Vintage: 2007
- Varietal: Blend
- Winery: Red Truck (Cline)
- Region: Sonoma
- Country: United States
- Price: About $10
- Rating: 85/100
- Tags: best value Blends
First: I am a complete sucker for advertising and packaging. If it’s in a pretty or neat-looking bottle and not the price of a small limb, I’ll probably buy it. Hence the first purchase of Red Truck wine, which occurred three years ago on a whim.
Not much to report there. I bought it, I liked it. Case closed.
But sometimes, with wine, there is a bottle that particularly stays with you because it evokes a really great memory. Such is the case with Red Truck.
It was summer 2005, on Martha’s Vineyard, cooking a steak dinner with a few of my best guy friends (this was before they really started drinking wine, too, which was an accomplishment), sitting outside on the porch on an early summers’ evening. I’m sure there were tons of bugs and a few raindrops, but all I remember is the steak and the wine (and the company). For this reason, Red Truck still remains one of my favorite red table wines.
Back to present day: Red Truck Red is Cline Cellars’ table wine, another blend of Syrah, Petite Syrah, Cabernet Franc, Grenache, and Mourvedre (if you’ve had a Cline wine before, it was probably one of the Zinfandels, which they’re known for). It isn’t terribly complex but has enough going on to be interesting, with a black cherry finish, pairing wonderfully with a grilled steak (I’m ready for spring, apparently). You should be able to find this for no more that $10 a bottle, and it’s is another great choice for a dinner party or date night.
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By Lauren McNally
Lauren B. McNally is a New York City-based writer who spends her days on Madison Avenue and her evenings in Spain, France, Italy, South America, and beyond. She originally hails from Maine and graduated from Bowdoin College, spending time abroad at the University of Cambridge in the UK. Lauren passed The Court of Master Sommeliers’ Level I exam in August and will sit for her Certified Sommelier Exam in early 2010.
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