2007 Basignani - Erik’s Big Zin

Basignani sources the fruit for their “Erik’s Big Zin” Zinfandel from Lodi, California. This is a promising start for those who bellyache about Maryland wine. Their Zin is also unfiltered. You’ll get a cloudy, dense red wine in your glass and maybe some sediment. This is, as Kermit Lynch readers know, a good thing.

The wine is okay. For $12 it is a worthy quaffer, as the elitists say. There are some tastes of cherry, plum, and chocolate. The wine is balanced well: not too hot, alcoholic or jammy.

I also took this opportunity to try a new (for me) wine preservation method that I read about for some time on Squires (threads here and here and here too). After opening, I poured half of my Erik’s Big Zin into an empty half-bottle. I jammed the cork in the half bottle and stuck it in the back of the freezer. Sometime this summer I’ll see if what they say is true: freezer preserves wine.