Tobin James Made In The Shade

[Innkeeper]

1999 tobin James, Made in the Shade, Paso Robles, Merlot ($18). Plum fruit and oak, being the only two dimensions, left this wine a typically unstructured California Merlot. Oddly it went better with food, simply fied burgers with onions nuked in OO, than by its lonesome. Sipped the first glass while burgers were sizzling, and the last after dinner. Normally this kind of wine is better for quaffing than with food. Maybe the burgers just covered up the deficiencies in the wine. Sigh.