Wine of the Day, No. 31

I don't cotton to wines with fanciful names, but I'll admit that after a few moments in the glass the Loomis Family Ember Red Wine 2012, Napa

Valley, seethed like a seductive glowing coal of smoldering lavender, licorice and graphite. The wine is a blend of 49 percent syrah grapes, 22 percent grenache and 7 percent mourvèdre, grapes associated, of course…