We are in love with today’s delicious, balanced, Pech Merle 2012 Cuccio Vineyard Dry Creek Valley Zinfandel. This wine is so good that we encourage you to grab a full case so that you can have enough on hand to last you through BBQ season.

Made by years-long Beringer Winery cellar director, John Pepe, this wine is fragrant, flavorful and very well balanced. It is also a food-pairing dream come true.

This Zinfandel is flexible enough to be paired with a fine filet mignon, a backyard burger, pasta with meat sauce or your favorite tangy BBQ.

Obviously, John learned a thing or two about making great wines while at behemoth Beringer, at Kendall-Jackson and at Lyeth too. John’s Pech Merle Winery produces around 3000 cases per year - and has won over 140 medals.

Bold, jammy and super aromatic on the nose, with jammy blackberry, cherry, and raspberry, smoky blueberry, cassis, sweet spice, sweet tobacco, sweet oak and black pepper.

On the palate, this is one of the most delicious Zins we’ve tasted in some time. This wine is loaded with flavors of blackberry, blueberry, wild strawberry, cassis, plum, sweet spice, black pepper, tobacco leaf, toasty oak and a hint of graphite.

We love this wine! Salut!