Tobin James Ballistic, 2004 Zinfandel
Posted by Max Dunn Wed, 26 Apr 2006 04:38:00 GMT
Last week when we were on vacation, one of the highlights was to visit Hi-Time Wine Cellar in Costa Mesa, CA. We enjoy going there so much that we visited it 3 times that week!
On our last visit, I was in the Zinfandel section and saw a women walk right up to the Tobin James Ballistic, 2004 Zinfandel grab a bottle and leave. Intrigued, I looked at the wine and saw that it had 15.5% alcohol and with a name like “Ballistic”, expected it to be a big, bad, bold Zinfandel – just the type we love. So I bought a bottle too.
Boy, was I wrong. Reminds me of when I was a freshman in college and copied an answer off my frat brothers paper, and got it wrong. Cribbing off of someone else just doesn’t pay. This wine was jammy all right, it just didn’t have any character. It tasted more like grape juice with vodka, or maybe a watered down port. No, that is a little harsh. I have had worse red wines in the Czech Republic, but this wine still was pretty much at the bottom of my list of wines I have had in the last year. Give me a 2 Buck Chuck any day over this.
0 out of 5 stars.