Barefoot Falls Short With Zinfandel

Time for a second wine in the Zinfandel category.  First, let me say, I love the plays on words you can find on almost any Zinfandel bottle.  Like our last Sin Zin.  This bottle claims this wine to be "Zinfully delicious!"  Being one who enjoys a corny joke now and then, I find them very amusing.

Barefoot's Zin had a great price, but for $7.60 I'd prefer their Muscato or the Riesling I had a few weeks ago.  The Zin had a fruity nose and light body, but no depth of flavor.  As a friend who was tasting with me said, "It tastes like... wine."   That's about all there was to say about this wine.

I'm a bit disappointed, as I've always enjoyed the low price point of Barefoot.  But perhaps my sense of a good wine in improving.  (I was informed on LinkedIn that I am a "wine geek in training.")  Either way, I hope disappointing does not become a pattern for Barefoot wines.  I'll keep trying and let you know what I find.

Stay cool (which is extremely difficult right now in my part of the country) and drink up, y'all!

-wine dummy

I scream, you scream, we all scream for Riesling!

Well it's hotter than hell in Texas (my thermometer read 100 degrees at 7:30 this evening).  What better way to cool off than with a nice, chilled, white wine?  Tonight's wine is Barefoot's Riesling.  It's been chilling in the refrigerator for a few days and I took it out before I hopped in the shower this evening so that it had time to warm.  I've found you can taste the flavors more if the wine is not refrigerator cold.  

It has a nose of crisp green apples and this is the first thing you'll taste.  The sharp apples flavor mellows a bit into a citrus flavor with a peach undertone.  The finish is a delicate orange blossom flavor.  I'll admit I wouldn't have noticed the peach or orange blossom without the fine notes from the back of the bottle, but this is all a learning experience, right?

This wine has little sweetness and moderate acidity.  It has a very light mouth-feel and no tannins.  Overall, I like it but, given my limited Riesling experience, I'd need to try some more to give a fair judge of whether this is a good one.  But by all means, give it a shot- it's not bad!

Drink up y'all!

-wine dummy