Happy Taco Tuesday! What a lovely day, it's been warm and humid and feeling a lot more like summer than it did last week. So, a perfect night for tacos and wine! Tonight I've decided to open a bottle of wine that's been sitting in my cellar for a couple years, the 2013 L'Ecole No. 41 Candy Mountain Red Wine, a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon (60%) and Merlot (40%) from the Candy Mountain Vineyard in the Columbia Valley of Washington. So let's see how this one tastes!
The wine is a deep ruby in the glass, almost reminiscent of a nice Cabernet. The wine exudes aromas of leather, blackberry and caramel spice, that just makes your mouth water. The taste is a rush of ripe black fruit, cherry, raspberry, and currant that transitions nicely to some dusty limestone notes midpalate. The finish is elegant and smooth, with firm tannins supporting the long, smooth and very dry finish.
Overall, I would rate this wine a solid 9, it's much better than the last vintage I tried (you can see the review of the 2010 vintage here), which was just too warm and spicy for my taste. This wine would be good with steaks, or with sizzling fajita steak tacos that I'm having tonight! The ripe fruit is a perfect foil to the zing of the tacos, cheers!
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