Zinfandel is quite an American prerogative since quite a few years, yet knowing that this perfumed grape also needs quite a heat to ripen, I thought why not, India is an up and coming wine region, let’s try that!
The wine is highly perfumed and somewhat roundly, with intense flavours of cooked strawberries and plums, cloves and other sweet spice. I have seen a few bars (there is a ‘Powder Keg Diplomacy’ one just next to where I live in Clapham) already stocking Indian wines and it is lovely to see an emerging territory that is making little steps to establish itself on the wine map.
This wine has a very nice fruit, yet it is so cooked and jammy that it makes the wine to taste much sweeter. There is not much complexity to it, but, quite interestingly, some chocolatey roundness. The finish is rather short, so it wont make your mouth linger.
I recon it is worth a try as currently many Indian wines come in this style, caused by the hot climate, but also to satisfy a somewhat growing sweet tooth of many consumers.
