http://blog.maxdunn.com/articles/2006/04/25/tobin-james-ballistic-2004-zinfandel en-us 40 Max Dunn's Personal Blog <p>Last week when we were on vacation, one of the highlights was to visit <a href="http://www.hitimewine.net">Hi-Time Wine Cellar</a> in Costa Mesa, CA. We enjoy going there so much that we visited it 3 times that week!</p> <p>On our last visit, I was in the Zinfandel section and saw a women walk right up to the <a href="http://www.hitimewine.net/istar.asp?a=6&#38;id=277058&#38;csurl=/iStar.asp?a%3D29">Tobin James Ballistic, 2004 Zinfandel</a> grab a bottle and leave. Intrigued, I looked at the wine and saw that it had 15.5% alcohol and with a name like &#8220;Ballistic&#8221;, expected it to be a big, bad, bold Zinfandel &#8211; just the type we love. So I bought a bottle too.</p> <p>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&#8217;t pay. This wine was jammy all right, it just didn&#8217;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 <a href="http://www.traderjoes.com/new/chuckshaw.asp">2 Buck Chuck</a> any day over this.</p> <p>0 out of 5 stars.</p> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 21:38:00 -0700 urn:uuid:2af0c1e5-1fb0-4910-aece-353b85e5f36b Max Dunn http://blog.maxdunn.com/articles/2006/04/25/tobin-james-ballistic-2004-zinfandel Wine and Whiskey