This past weekend, I was lucky enough to be invited to a friends house for a great cookout in some subtropical temperatures we were having here in Southeastern, VA. To help us get through the heat, we all enjoyed some nice white burgundies from Leroy and one of my favorite wines to have with steak and hamburgers, the 2006 K Vintners The Creator. This wine is a Cabernet Sauvignon (60%) and Syrah (40%) blend, sourced from the En Cerise and Morrison Lane vineyards. K Vintners made 365 cases of the wine, and retails from $50-$70. I picked up the bottle from Winelibrary.com in December of last year for $45.98.
Initial Impressions: I mean, who cannot love Rasta Jesus. Even if you absolutely hate their wines, they certainly do have some of the most creative and distinctive packaging in the business. The wine itself has an amazing color, just blackedy black colors throughout with a nice little tinge of purple towards the outside. Tipping the glass does not make the color change one bit, as its completely opaque and inky.
Nose: Honestly this wine smells more like a huge northern Italian and Spanish meal than a wine. There is an overloading of Italian sausage, bacon, everytype of chocolate imaginable, a little honeydew skin, a vegetable stew, and a huge amount of tomato sauce. This is seriously a huge nose for a wine, and definitely atypical of many wines you will get anywhere outside of a higher end Cote Rotie.
Taste: Just like the nose, this thing is loaded with huge gamey, full meal type flavors. There are definite chocolate components in this wine, along with a nice spicey saugsage component, a great amount of vegetables, and licorace. This wine is layered beautifully, with a great structure and a few elegant back end tannins towards the back end. Wow.
Overall: This is a great wine, seriously. It has so many different things going on with it that it can make your head spin, but is integrated well enough to pair very well with a huge meat or italian dish. I had a great huge handmade hamburger with this wine, with some heavy duty vegetables and this wine could not have gone better with it. If you can find this wine, treat yourself to it. 96 Points
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