*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Rodney Strong Vineyards
As I am well into my second week of the furlough, I figured it was time for a treat in my wine-drinking queue. I can’t always look for the cheap and cheerful wines, it kills your will to taste lots of not so great wines in search of a single gem all the time. Instead, I bustled around in the basement looking for something opulent and sure to please and came back up with the 2007 Rodney Strong Symmetry. The Symmetry is a Meritage blend with a real cork closure, 15.1% alcohol by volume, and a retail price of about $50.
Four takeaways from this wine:
1.) Opulent is really the proper word for this wine: it’s luxurious and rich in all aspects.
2.) $50 may seem a little pricey, especially these days, but I think you get quite a bit for that money in this bottle of wine, it’s enticing and layered and tastes much more expensive.
3.) Rodney Strong is generally so consistent to me as a producer that I never hesitate to recommend their wines.
4.) I’m still not sure how I’ve never actually made it to the actual Rodney Strong facility in all these years.
Right from the off you just look at this wine and observe how incredibly dark the juice appears. In fact, my notes say “dark dark dark.” In the mouth I found dark chocolate, dried cherries, mulberry, spice, black cherry, and currants. On the palate got herbs, spice, pepper, anise, coffee, blackberry, and black currants. The wine had a long finish with good tannins and needed some time in the glass to really open up. Do yourself a favor and run it through the decanter (or your Wine Soiree!) if you pop open this bottle soon.
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