We in this house love the Sandbanks Baco. While I love the Ridge Road most of all, for an LCBO accessible wine this one is tops for me! At $14.95 it is a pretty good price, especially for the quality of wine that it is. Also, if you order 2 or more bottles from the winery, they will deliver right to your house! You can't beat that really. Tonight K's book club met and I made them join us in reviewing this wine. Overall I would say since 5 out of 6 of us loved this wine, it is a safe buy, and would go will with dinner or on its own. A good patio wine or campfire chug.
L - This wine has a very velvety nose. It is earthy with a musky aroma. It is fruity, smokey and bright, with high high notes and a light floral finish. This went well with the potato latkes we ate, because it was so rich and full-bodied.
C - I like my wine to taste like licking the bottom of an ashtray, so the smokey-ness of this wine is definitely for me. I normally don't like bacos because I find them to be too fruity and simple, but that is not the case with this one. It smells salty. It definitely tastes fruity and is ridiculously smooth, like black cherry ice cream, but is also quite acidic. I like this wine.
M - I don't like it and would not purchase it again. Though it is notable that it is at least not a flavourless and boring wine. It is bright at the end but is too smokey and heavy at the finish, which is something I do not like in a wine. I prefer fruitier Shirazs.
E - This wine is really fruity. It is not as dense as a Shiraz though. I could chug it down like a wino on the streets.
A - This wine smells like a man's library. It is slightly fizzy tasting. It has a very fruity start with an equally oaky finish. It tastes like cherries, plums, or cranberries. I don't love it as much as I did the 2011, but that is setting a high bar. I think the fact that it was bottled this month makes it a pretty young wine, maybe accounting for the fizzyness and lightness and makes it less complex than the 2011. It has a dry finish but also is a litle nutty. The more I drink it the more I have come to like it on its own, not comparing it to wines past.
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