Vilinka Cellars Blatina 2015 Color:Red Make a kickin' cherry cola

Make a kickin' cherry cola or refreshing cherry lemonade for a hot summer day

while the blending of fruit from a variety of vineyards allows the wines to maintain more complexity and a better style consistency from vintage to vintage

and sometimes violet and bracken

The palate reveals a powerful wine

Vilinka Cellars Blatina 2015 Color:Red Make a kickin' cherry colaThis is fuller in the mouth than the unoaked red, not surprisingly. They both have superb structure. The most important difference is the wood, giving this a velvety texture and rounding off the wine a bit. As it airs, though, it shows plenty of pop and power, probably even more than the Blatina, which was not shy. Put this in the cellar for a couple of years.