I had a glass of this wine Dec. 20th at The Fig Tree Restaurant in Charlotte with my entrée of lamb chops (Dijon and bread crumb encrusted lamb chops over Israeli cous cous with rosemary cream sauce, shitake mushrooms.) I had Caesar salad with added diced hearts of palm prior to the entrée. The Fig Tree Restaurant is my favorite Charlotte restaurant. In a 1913 Craftsman bungalow, it is always beautifully decorated during the Christmas season. Service is generally very good and the food is excellent, the wine list is well chosen, and the servers are educated about the wines. (Two slip-ups however on this visit--the lamb chops came out barely warm and cooled off quickly and I was interrupted not once, but twice, while trying to say grace. I had my head bowed and my eyes closed but that did not prevent a male server from asking me if I wanted cracked pepper on my salad, and my main server from asking how I liked the wine which I hadn't even tried yet as I was holding it for the entrée, not the salad.)L
Got that off my chest--now the wine.
Light-bodied with a medium length finish. Bright red cherry flavor. Approachable now which is probably due to the ripe vintage. Some raspberry flavor becomes evident further into the glass. Went down very nicely but was maybe a little on the mild side for the lamb. The same might have been true of the other red I considered ordering--a 2013 Big Table Farm Pinot Noir from the Willamette Valley, Oregon.