Night on the town

FINALLY I'll get to review a bottle that uses my favorite varietal, the zinfandel. Honestly, the Zin grape is the cuplrit for my love of all (er... most) wines red. The short version is my brother, who was a liquor/wine sales rep (man I wish he still had that job...), opened a Clos du Bous Zin. That was the first red wine I had ever tasted that just blew me away. Sorry, I don't remember the year. I wish I did because it rocked.

My point? As usual, I don't have much of one, just that Zin's are my favorite. If it says "Jammy" on the description, 9 or 10 times I'll gleefully drink a bottle up and ask for more.

Ok... sorry for the tangent. On to my description of last night.

So last night my wonderful girlfriend decides to take me out for a nice dinner. Nothing stupid fancy, i.e. no need for shirt and tie, but certainly a couple steps above the local Outback, if you get what I mean. The place is Mac's in Saline, MI. Interesting wine list, lots of seafood, and a bit hip. One sentence review of the restaraunt is that it was ok and I grill fish as good as they do and it's less than half the price for a comparable meal.

That all aside, Tuesday's there are half off bottle night, so we're in luck! We spot a 2000 Zin and I'm praying she'll just pick that, knowing that I'm a huge Zin fan. She, being the smart gal she is, does select it for us.

So I'm all excited. Here lately I've been reading about how bottle aging is no substitute for decanting wines and all that. Time in the bottle is how the flavors really develop, blah, blah, blah. Granted, a 2000 isn't that ancient of a wine, but it's 2-3 years older than the stuff I'm getting at the local grocery, so, in my world this constitues as an "old" bottle.

It ran us $25 after the discount, so I'd guess shelf price would be around $20-$22/bottle. The review is forthcoming.

It was good and enjoyable, but not stunning. I guess that description could go for both the wine and the dinner.

The one redeeming thing about the wine itself was that it went with our entire meal. The calamari, my salad with a Dijon vinagrette, and my swordfish. We lucked out on that!

The wine review will be posted very, very shortly.