Klinker Brick Winery has produced an excellent well-balanced Blend from some bold varieties. A big and bountiful Californian red blend of 80% Zinfandel, with 10% Syrah, 5% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Petite Sirah, blended and matured for 16 months in American oak. Creamy, spicy and voluptuous on the nose, there's tons of blueberry and plum fruit, and then the palate which is sweet-fruited and Christmas-cake spiced, rich and full, but with a fairly firm tannin background and cherry-pit acidity giving more spice and savouriness on the finish.

A juicy steak or anything from the chargrill with this one.

Klinker Brick, 'Brickmason' Lodi Red Blend is currently available in The Wine Press, Dundee's Finest Wine Bar.